The Belá ( hu, Béla-patak), in length, is a mountainous
stream
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draining the
headwaters of the
Váh River basin in
Tatra National Park, northern
Slovakia. It is a right tributary, into which it flows at the town of
Liptovský Hrádok. The Belá itself is formed by two tributaries, the streams ''Tichý potok'' and ''Kôprovský potok'', whose sources are in the
High Tatra mountains, and which have their confluence near Podbanské, part of the town of
Vysoké Tatry
Vysoké Tatry (; hu, Magastátra, ; german: Höhe Tatra, ; pl, Wysokie Tatry, ; cs, Vysoké Tatry, ), formally Mesto Vysoké Tatry () is a town at the feet of the Slovak part of High Tatras in Slovakia including all the major resorts in that ...
. It is long and its basin size is .

The Belá is well suited to
rafting and
kayaking
Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving over water. It is distinguished from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle. A kayak is a low-to-the-water, canoe-like boat in which the paddler sits fac ...
.
rivers.raft.cz
, retrieved 17 May 2012
References
Rivers of Slovakia
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