Czarna Woda is a river of
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
, a tributary of the
Kaczawa
The Kaczawa (), in English Katzbach, is a river in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. It springs from the Kaczawskie Mountains near Kaczorów and flows north and northeast through the towns of Świerzawa, Złotoryja and Legnica. Among its ...
, which it meets in
Legnica. The Czarna Woda is 48
km long. It flows through
Lower Silesian Voivodeship and has
water falls in
Legnica.
Czarna Woda
at hydral. The river also flows through marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p Marshes can often be found a ...
es at Wierzbowskie taking a west
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...
erly direction from the village of Wierzbowa. The river flows through Legnica District. Its main tributaries are the Skora and Siekierna Rivers.
File:Mapa części Niziny Śląsko Łużyckiej i Wału Trzebnickiego.png, Map of the
File:MOs810, WG 2014 56 Oledry nowotomyskie (Czarna Woda river, Miedzichowo).JPG, Czarna Woda river
Towns on the river include Wierzbowa, Rokitki, Grzymalin, Bukowna
Bukowna (german: Buchwald) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubin, within Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Lubin, and west of the regional capital Wroc ...
, Rzeszotary and Legnica.
References
Rivers of Poland
Rivers of Lower Silesian Voivodeship
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