Dunajec
{{Infobox river
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| image_caption = Dunajec viewed from Trzy Korony
| source1_location = confluence of Czarny Dunajec and Biały Dunajec
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| mouth_location = Vistula
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| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = Slovakia, Poland
| length_km = 249
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| discharge1_avg = {{convert|85.5|m3/s|abbr=on}}
| basin_size_km2 = 6796
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The Dunajec ({{IPA|pl|duˈnajɛt͡s}}; Goral dialects: Dónajec; {{IPA|sk|ˈdunajet͡s}}) is a river running through northeastern Slovakia and southern Poland. It is also regarded as the main river of the Goral Lands. It is a right tributary of the Vistula River. It begins in Nowy Targ at the junction of two short mountain rivers, Czarny Dunajec and Biały Dunajec (Black and White Dunajec). Dunajec forms the border between Poland and Slovakia for {{convert|17|km}} in the Pieniny Środkowe (Slovak: Centrálne Pieniny) range, east of the Czorsztyn reservoir.
Geography
The Dunajec is {{convert|249|km}} long, including its source river Czarny Dunajec,[http://stat.gov.pl/download/gfx/portalinformacyjny/en/defaultaktualnosci/3328/2/17/1/statistical_yearbook_of_the_republic_of_poland_2017.pdf Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland 2017], Statistics Poland, p. 85-86 which makes it Poland's thirteenth longest river. It has a basin area of {{convert|6,796|km2}} ({{convert|4,838|km2|disp=sqbr|abbr=values}} in Poland, and {{convert|1958|km2|disp=sqbr|abbr=values}} in Slovakia). On the Slovak-Polish border, the Dunajec flows through the Zamagurie region, with attractions such as the Dunajec River Gorge, the Trzy Korony massif with a {{convert|500|m|ft}} precipice, Červený Kláštor, and two Pieniny castles in Czorsztyn and Niedzica.
Below the two source streams, the Dunajec flows through a broad valley called Nowotarska Basin. It then supplies the waters of the dam in Niedzica (Jezioro Czorsztyńskie Lake) and the dam in Sromowce Wyżne (Sromowce Wyżne reservoir). Flowing through the central part of the Pieniny range, it creates a picturesque turn at the Polish Slovak border between Sromowce Wyżne and Szczawnica, where it flows by Kotuńka rock which differentiates the area from the over parts of the river. Further down, it turns to the north into the Western Beskid Mountains, and Sądecka Basin (where it merges with its own largest tributary, the Poprad river). It flows across an open valley of the Beskid Foothills and falls down across Rożnów Foothills (with two more dams: the Jezioro Rożnowskie Lake, and Jezioro Czchowskie Lake) and finally, it leads into the Sandomierz Basin and the valley of Vistula Lowlands. The Dunajec flows into the Vistula River in the vicinity of Opatowiec.
Towns and townships
File:Pieniny-map2.png Środkowe range (Slovak: Centrálne Pieniny) forming a 27 km border between Poland and Slovakia]]
The Dunajec flows through or near these locations in Poland and north Slovakia:
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Gallery
File:Niedzica Castle, Niedzica-Zamek village, Nowy Targ County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.jpg|Niedzica Castle with the Czorsztyn Castle ruins in the background
File:CervenyKlastor11Slovakia6.JPG|Dunajec and the Trzy Korony Mountain
File:A MG 5185 Panorama.jpg|Dunajec in autumn
File:Przełom Pieniński a1.jpg|Dunajec Gorge in the Pieniny mountains
File:Szczawnica Dunajec 3.jpg|Dunajec in Szczawnica
File:Nowy Sącz zza Dunajca.JPG|Dunajec in Nowy Sącz
File:20170814 Jezioro Rożnowskie z Tabaszowej 5398 DxO.jpg|Lake Rożnów
File:Roznow zapora.jpg|Rożnów dam
File:Zamek Tropsztyn - ZJ001.jpg|Tropsztyn Castle
File:Czchów i Dunajec, kwiecień 2021.jpg|Czchów Castle
See also
{{Commons category|Dunajec}}
References
- [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/173574/Dunajec-River Dunajec River at Encyclopædia Britannica]
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Category:Rivers of Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Category:Poland–Slovakia border