The Nysa Mała ("Little Neisse") is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

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 populous ...

that is about 19 kilometres long,EMAPI - Map Company Website Emapa
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Raging Neisse The Raging NeisseDodge, Lt Col Theodore Ayrault. ''Napoleon: A History of the Art of War. Vol. IV'', 2014 ( pl, Nysa Szalona, or ''Jauersche Neiße'') is a river in Poland. It has a length of about and flows into the Kaczawa (Katzbach), which in ...

. In the area of the foothills of the

Sudetes The Sudetes ( ; pl, Sudety; german: Sudeten; cs, Krkonošsko-jesenická subprovincie), commonly known as the Sudeten Mountains, is a geomorphological subprovince in Central Europe, shared by Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. They consis ...

it flows through the Chełmy Landscape Park. The Little Neisse flows for much of its course through deciduous forests. The entire course of the river is located south of

Jawor Jawor (german: Jauer) is a town in south-western Poland with 22,890 inhabitants (2019). It is situated in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship (from 1975 to 1998 it was in the former Legnica Voivodeship). It is the seat of Jawor County, and lies appro ...

, and north of

Bolków Bolków (german: Bolkenhain) is a town in Jawor County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district ( gmina) called Gmina Bolków and part of the '' Neisse-Nysa-Nisa'' Euroregion. Overvi ...

and runs from west to east. Between

Gniewków Gniewków (german: Girlachsdorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dobromierz, within Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately north of Dobromierz, north-west of Świdnica ...

and Czernica, the Little Neisse discharges into the

, the largest and most important 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 ...

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* ''Słownik geografii turystycznej Sudetów'', Volume 7 '' Kaczawskie '', ed. Marek Staffa, Publisher I-BiS, Wroclaw, 2002, {{DEFAULTSORT:Nysa Mala Rivers of Poland Rivers of Lower Silesian Voivodeship

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