Słudwia is a river in Central Poland. Its source is located near the village of Długołęka. The river flows for through the Kutno Plains, before joining the

Bzura The Bzura is a river in central Poland, a tributary of the Vistula river (in Wyszogród), with a length of 173 kilometres and a basin area of 7,764 km2.Łowicz Łowicz is a town in central Poland with 27,896 inhabitants (2020). It is situated in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999); previously, it was in Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975–1998). Together with a nearby station of Bednary, Łowicz is a ma ...

. Its

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...

area is . The river is best known for the 1928

Maurzyce Bridge The Maurzyce Bridge ( Polish: ''Most w Maurzycach'') is a bridge over the Słudwia River (tributary of Bzura) in Central Poland. It is known as the first entirely welded road bridge and the second welded bridge of any category in the world. The b ...

built across it, the first welded road bridge in the world, designed by Stefan Bryła.Wai-Fah Chen, Lian Duan, ''Handbook of International Bridge Engineering'' (, 2013), page 601

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Rivers of Poland Rivers of Łódź Voivodeship {{Poland-river-stub