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Biały Dunajec (river)
The Biały Dunajec is a river in Poland, the right tributary of the Dunajec. The river arises at an altitude of approx. 730 m in Poronin from the confluence of rivers and . The Biały Dunajec then flows through the eponymous Biały Dunajec village, Szaflary and Nowy Targ, where at an altitude of about 577 m it joins the Czarny Dunajec, giving rise to the Dunajec. The river flows by the Bór na Czerwonem nature reserve. The Biały Dunajec is formed in the Podtatrzański Trench, while its lower course and mouth are located in the Orava-Nowy Targ Basin. In the upper part of the course, down to Szaflary, the river has a more mountain character. There are large boulders, plunge pools and riffles in its bed, and the width of the river ranges from several meters to several dozen meters. Below Szaflary, the river is regulated and separated by high concrete sills. Main tributaries * left: Suchy Potok, Potok Bustrycki, Syposi Potok, Florynów Potok, Krajowy Potok * right: Świdrów ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bór Na Czerwonem
Bór may refer to: * Bór, Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland) * Bór, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (south Poland) * Bór, Opole Lubelskie County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland) * Bór, Zamość County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland) * Bór, Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland) * Bór, Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland) *Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski Generał Tadeusz Komorowski (1 June 1895 – 24 August 1966), better known by the name Bór-Komorowski (after one of his wartime code names: ''Bór'' – "The Forest") was a Polish military leader. He was appointed commander-in-chief a day be ..., a Polish officer and Commander of the Home Army See also * {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huchen
The huchen (''Hucho hucho'') (, from German), also known as Danube salmon or redfish (), is a large species of freshwater fish in the family Salmonidae native to the Danube basin in Central and Eastern Europe. It is the type species of genus '' Hucho'' (a.k.a. the taimens), being closely related (in the same subfamily) to salmon, trout, char and lenoks. Distribution The huchen is endemic to the Danube basin in Europe where the remaining population is threatened primarily by river damming, resulting in habitat fragmentation and loss through river impoundment and disruption of the longitudinal continuity of rivers, cutting away fish from its spawning grounds, with overfishing and fisheries mismanagement as an additional issue in many areas. Damming and all these other problems are especially visible in the Balkans. The upper reaches of the Danube basin, rivers and tributaries contain almost all of the recent population. This includes: *In Austria: the Inn river, the up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thymallus Thymallus
''Thymallus thymallus'', the grayling or European grayling, is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family (biology), family Salmonidae. It is the only species of the genus ''Thymallus'' (the graylings) native to Europe, where it is widespread from the United Kingdom and France to the Ural Mountains in Russia, and Balkans on the south-east, but does not occur in the southern parts of the continent. It was introduced to Morocco in 1948, but it does not appear to have become established there. Description The grayling grows to a maximum recorded length of and a maximum recorded weight of . Of typical ''Thymallus'' appearance, the grayling proper is distinguished from the similar Arctic grayling (''T. arcticus arcticus'') by the presence of 5–8 dorsal fin, dorsal and 3–4 anal fin, anal spines, which are absent in the other species; ''T. thymallus'' also has a smaller number of soft rays in these fins. Individuals of the species have been recorded as reaching an age of 14 y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow Trout
The rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') is a species of trout native to cold-water tributary, tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia. The steelhead (sometimes called steelhead trout) is an Fish migration#Classification, anadromous (sea-run) form of the coastal rainbow trout or Columbia River redband trout that usually returns to freshwater to Spawn (biology), spawn after living two to three years in the ocean. Adult freshwater stream rainbow trout average between , while lake-dwelling and anadromous forms may reach . Coloration varies widely based on subspecies, forms, and habitat. Adult fish are distinguished by a broad reddish stripe along the lateral line, from gills to the tail, which is most vivid in breeding males. Wild-caught and Fish hatchery, hatchery-reared forms of the species have been transplanted and introduced for food or sport in at least 45 countries and every continent except Antarctica. Introductions to locations outside their nativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salmo Trutta Fario
''Salmo trutta fario'', sometimes called the river trout, is a river-dwelling freshwater predatory fish from the genus ''Salmo'' of the family Salmonidae. It is one of the three main subspecies of the brown trout (''Salmo trutta''), besides sea trout (''Salmo trutta trutta'') and the lacustrine trout ('' Salmo trutta lacustris''). Description Depending on the supply of food, river trout measure 20 to 80 cm (0.7–2.6 ft) in length; exceptionally, they may be up to 1 m (3.3 ft) long and weigh up to over 13 kg (29 lb), although they usually attain an average weight of up to 2 kg (4.4 lb). Their back is olive-dark brown and silvery blue, red spots with light edges occur towards the belly, and the belly is whitish yellow. They can live for up to 18 years. Habitat Like other salmonids, river trout live in cool, fast-flowing, oxygen-rich, clear waters with gravel or sandy riverbeds. Their native ranges occur across almost all of Europe, from Portugal on the Iberian Peninsula to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riffle
A riffle is a shallow landform in a flowing channel. Colloquially, it is a shallow place in a river where water flows quickly past rocks. However, in geology a riffle has specific characteristics. Topographic, sedimentary and hydraulic indicators Riffles are almost always found to have a very low discharge compared to the flow that fills the channel (approximately 10–20%), and as a result the water moving over a riffle appears shallow and fast, with a wavy, disturbed water surface. The water's surface over a riffle at low flow also has a much steeper slope than that over other in-channel landforms. Channel sections with a mean water surface slope of roughly 0.1 to 0.5% exhibit riffles, though they can occur in steeper or gentler sloping channels with coarser or finer bed materials, respectively. Except in the period after a flood (when fresh material is deposited on a riffle), the sediment on the riverbed in a riffle is usually much coarser than on that in any other in-chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plunge Pool
A plunge pool (or plunge basin or waterfall lake) is a deep depression in a stream bed at the base of a waterfall or Shut-in (river), shut-in. It is created by the erosion, erosional forces of cascading water on the rocks at the formation's base where the water impacts.Marshak, Stephen, 2009, ''Essentials of Geology,'' W. W. Norton & Company, 3rd ed. The term may refer to the water occupying the depression, or the depression itself. Formation Plunge pools are formed by the natural force of falling water, such as at a waterfall or cascade; they also result from man-made structures such as some spillway designs. Plunge pools are often very deep, generally related to the height of the fall, the volume of water, the resistance of the rock below the pool and other factors. The impacting and swirling water, sometimes carrying rocks within it, Abrasion (geology), abrades the riverbed into a basin, which often features rough and irregular sides. Plunge pools can remain long after t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orava-Nowy Targ Basin
The Orava-Nowy Targ Basin () is the northern, lowest part of the Podhale-Magura Area, between the Western Beskids in the north and the Spisko-Gubałowski Highlands in the south. Boundaries The boundaries are as follows. * to the west, along the foothills of the Slovak Orava Beskids, slightly to the west of the Orava reservoir * to the north, the basin borders on the Działy Orawskie, the Beskid Orawsko-Podhalański and the Gorce Mountains. The border runs on the northern side of the Orava reservoir, through the Czarna Orawa valley, Piekielnik (a tributary of Czarna Orawa), along the foot of the hills of the Działy Orawskie to Nowy Targ, from here through the Dunajec valley to the Lake Czorsztyn, which is located within the Nowy Targ Basin. * eastern border: a dam on the Lake Czorsztyn * from the south, the valley borders with the Pieniny Mountains, Pogórze Bukowińskie and Pogórze Gubałowskie. The border runs along the southern banks of the Lake Czorsztyn to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podtatrzański Trench
Sub-Tatra Trench (Polish: Rów Podtatrzański; Slovakian: Podtatranská brázda) ( 514.14) is a mesoregion located below the Tatra Mountains, part of the Orava-Podhale Depression. The trench divides the Choč and Tatra Mountains from the Spiš–Gubałówka Highlands. The region has an elevation of between 700 and 1000 m.a.s.l. It is formed from Eocene marlstone slates (Podhalański Flysch). In Poland, the area has a total length of 20 km and a total surface area of 130 km². The regional valleys incline in the north, covered with alluvial fans, formed via upper course river flow. The Zakopane Valley has three gravel top soil coverings from three separate glacial periods. The western part and eastern borderlands of the Podtatrzański Trench are forested. The main brooks that drain through the valley are the Czarny Dunajec, as well as the Zakopianka and Poroniec (sources of Biały Dunajec). The region is characterised by the settlement areas of Zakopane, as well as K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czarny Dunajec (river)
The Czarny Dunajec is a river in southern Poland (Lesser Poland Voivodeship), in the Vistula basin. Course The Wyżni Chochołowski Potok is considered the source of the Czarny Dunajec river. It flows out at an altitude of about under Volovec in the Western Tatras. After the merger with the Jarząbcze Potok, the Chochołowski Potok is formed, called Siwa Woda in the lower part. It is the middle course of Czarny Dunajec. In Roztoki (part of the village of Witów), Siwa Woda connects with Kirowa Woda and the lower course of the Czarny Dunajec begins here. The Czarny Dunajec flows through Podhale, initially to the north-west, between Pogórze Gubałowskie and Orawicko-Witowskie Wierchy, then north through the Orava-Nowy Targ Basin. It makes a wide arc and flows to the east. The main towns that the Czarny Dunajec flows through include Witów, Chochołów, Koniówka, Podczerwone, Czarny Dunajec, Wróblówka, Długopole, Krauszów and Ludźmierz. In Nowy Targ it j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poroniec (river)
A (; plural ) is a hostile and malicious demon from Slavic mythology. They were believed to come into existence from stillborn fetuses, but also from improperly buried remains of children who had died during infancy. Folklore A is somewhat similar to a being from Scandinavian folklore, the . were considered to be extremely powerful demons, due to their potential of unrealized life. were associated with many taboos regarding pregnant women, such as drawing water from a well, leaving home with an infant, or engaging in sexual intercourse. A stillborn fetus did not turn into a if it was buried under the threshold of the house. Instead, it turned into a – a protective house spirit. In popular culture *In the 2015 video game '' The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'', one of the main quests revolves around the search for a botchling ( in the original version) that can be killed or turned into a lubberkin (). See also * Drekavac (the South Slavic equivalent) * Myling * Pontianak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
