The Narewka (; Belarusian ''Нараўка'') River is a left-bank tributary of the

Narew River The Narew (; be, Нараў, translit=Naraŭ; or ; Sudovian: ''Naura''; Old German: ''Nare''; uk, Нарва, translit=Narva) is a 499-kilometre (310 mi) river primarily in north-eastern Poland, which is also a tributary of the river Vis ...

in western

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and northeastern

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Etymology

The Narewka River's name comes from a

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root, ''*nr'', primarily associated with "water" (compare

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, Neretva,

Neris The river Neris () or Viliya ( be, Ві́лія, pl, Wilia ) rises in northern Belarus. It flows westward, passing through Vilnius (Lithuania's capital) and in the south-centre of that country it flows into the Nemunas (Neman), at Kaunas, as ...

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, and Nur).

Geography

The Narewka flows through the

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an region known as the ''Wysoczyzny Podlasko – Bialoruskie'' (Podlasie–Belarus Plateau) in

's Podlasie Province and

Hrodna Voblast Grodno Region ( pl, Grodzieńszczyzna) or Grodno Oblast or Hrodna Voblasts ( be, Гродзенская вобласць, ''Hrodzienskaja vobłasć'', , ''Haradzienščyna''; russian: Гродненская область, ''Grodnenskaya oblast' ...

. A major part of the river flows through the

Białowieża Forest Białowieża Forest; lt, Baltvyžių giria; pl, Puszcza Białowieska ; russian: Беловежская пуща, Belovezhskaya Pushcha is a forest on the border between Belarus and Poland. It is one of the last and largest remaining pa ...

. The Narewka River is the main watercourse of the Polish part of the

. The river is 61.1 km long, including 21.7 kilometers in the

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. Catchment (basin) covers an area Narewka 710.7 km sq., of which the Polish border is 491.32 km. Within the forest is 380 km² catchment area, part of which falls in the Białowieża National Park. Catchment forest cover is 49.9%. Until dry, the Narewka flowed through quite a muddy valley. In the 1960s has been draining uroczyska "Wild Nikora. The width of the trough Narewka ranges from 5 to 15 m (at the mouth). The maximum depth at the measuring point in Bialowieza: 201 cm. The rate of flow is 2 km / hr.

History

Narewka River is marked on the first map of Bialowieza, line drawn in 1784 by the royal surveyor Michael Połchowskiego. The documents appear much earlier. In December 1409

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took place in Bialowieza Forest a great hunt, making the stocks of meat before the battle of Grunwald. The meat is in the spring of next year, the river was floated Narewka, Narew and the Vistula to Plock. In 1559 a partial separation was carried out from Bialowieza Forest Bielsko (Ladzkiej). Narewka River to the mouth of the Narew, along with the river Wieliczanka constituted the boundary between forests. Narewka

Cities and towns

Villages:

Białowieża Białowieża ( be, Белавежа, Biełavieža) is a village (population 2,000 as of 2002) in Poland's Podlasie Province, in the middle of the Białowieża Forest, to which it gave its name. The village is some east of Hajnówka and southe ...

, Pogorzelce,

Narewka Narewka ( be, На́раўка) is a village in eastern Poland, with its population estimated at 935 residents (as of 2011). It is located in Gmina Narewka, Hajnówka County, within Podlaskie Voivodeship. The village is located near Poland's bo ...

, Nowe Lewkowo and Stare Lewkowo.

Tributaries

* L Waliczówka * L Jabłoniówka * R Bobrówka * L Okulinka * L Jelonka * R Braszcza * R Hwoźna :* R Sirota * L Przedzielna * R Orłówka * L Łutownia :* R Krynica * R Złota :* L Jelonka * L Pierierownica * L Tisovka

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Narewka (River) Rivers of Brest Region Rivers of Poland Rivers of Podlaskie Voivodeship Białowieża Forest International rivers of Europe Rivers of Belarus