Żywiec Basin (
[Prof. Jerzy Kondracki. Geografia fizyczna Polski. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Warszawa. 1988. ]) is a lowland, located in southern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
, between the
Little Beskids to the north,
Silesian Beskids to the west,
Żywiec Beskids to the south and east, and
Maków Beskids to the east. It has the size of around . It is centered on the confluences of the rivers
Koszarawa and
Żylica with
Soła close to the town of
Żywiec
Żywiec () is a town on the River Soła in southern Poland with 31,194 inhabitants (2019). It is situated within the Silesian Voivodeship, near the Żywiec Lake and Żywiec Landscape Park, one of the eight protected areas in the voivodeship. H ...
, whence the name of the basin is derived from.
References
Landforms of Poland
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