The Doły Jasielsko-Sanockie (, Jasielsko– Sanockie

Valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains and typically containing a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...

Jasło Jasło is a county town in south-eastern Poland with 36,641 inhabitants, as of 31 December 2012. It is situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), and it was previously part of Krosno Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is located in Lesser ...

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Sanok Sanok (in full the Royal Free City of Sanok — , , ''Sanok'', , ''Sianok'' or ''Sianik'', , , ''Sūnik'' or ''Sonik'') is a town in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of southeastern Poland with 38,397 inhabitants, as of June 2016. Located on the San ...

Valleys, the Jasło-Sanok Basin or Jasielsko-Sanockie Pits) is a mountain range stretching between the

Wisłoka The Wisłoka is a river in south-eastern Poland, and a tributary of Vistula River. It is long and has a basin area of . Its highest elevation is , while the lowest point in the valley of the river Wisłoka lies at an elevation of above sea ...

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San River The San (; ''Sian''; ) is a river in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. It is a tributary of the river Vistula. With a length of , the San is the 6th-longest Polish river. It has a basin area of 16,877 km2, of which 14,426 k ...

s in the West Carpathian Plateau and Central Beskidian Piedmont in southeastern Poland.

Geography

The mountains reach up to 250–500 meters above sea level. The range is situated in the southern part of the

Subcarpathian Voivodeship Subcarpathian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in the southeastern corner of Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów. Along with the Marshal, it is governed by the Subcarpathian Regional As ...

. It is the lowest mountain range of the Polish Carpathians. They can be divided into: Gorlickie Depression, Jasielskie Plateau, Jasielsko – Krośnieńska Valley and Bukowskie Plateau. They stretch along a 100 km long and 18 km wide strip of land between

Low Beskids The Low Beskids () or Central Beskids (; ; ) are a mountain range in southeastern Poland and northeastern Slovakia. They constitute a middle (central) section of the Beskids, within the Outer Eastern Carpathians. Since there are several tradit ...

in the south and heights of plateau in the north. From the tourist point of view the region of Doły (''Pits'') is limited from the west by the valley of Ropa River, from the east by the

Wisłok Wisłok is a river in south-eastern Poland, a tributary of the San River, with a length of 220 kilometres and a basin area of 3,538 km2 (all in Poland). The root of the name ''Vis-lok'' is Indo-European or pre-Indo-European. The first met ...

and San rivers, from the south by the

line and from the north by a Dynowskie Plateau enclosed by the route of the national road No 28 ( from Zator to the national border in

Medyka Medyka () is a village in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It is the seat of the municipality (gmina) called Gmina Medyka. It lies approximately east of Przemyśl and east of the r ...

) on the section between

Gorlice Gorlice () is a town and an urban municipality ("gmina") in south-eastern Poland with around 29,500 inhabitants (2008). It is situated south east of Kraków and south of Tarnów between Jasło and Nowy Sącz in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (sinc ...

- Grybów -

Biecz Biecz () () is a town and municipality in southeastern Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Gorlice County. It is in the Carpathian Mountains, in the Doły Jasielsko-Sanockie, by the Ropa (river), Ropa River. Due to its rich history, it is often ...

Krosno Krosno (in full ''The Royal Free City of Krosno'', ) is a historical town and Krosno County, county in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in southeastern Poland. The estimated population of the town is 47,140 inhabitants as of 2014. The functional ...

Rymanów Rymanów (; or ; ) is a town located in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in the southeastern tip of Poland, with 3,585 inhabitants. It is a capital of a separate gmina, commune within powiat of Krosno, Krosno County. Rymanów is situated in the hea ...

. The highest summit on the side is Dział (678 m. high, above the sea level) in the Tabor and Czarny Potok rivers. In general mountains of the ''Doły'' are low with gentle slopes and long ridges with a flattened tops and domed summits, and only in some places are characterized by sharp downcasts. The height of summits varies from 350 to 650 m. above the sea level.

Settlements

Important cities of this region include

, Lesko,

Brzozów Brzozów ( ''Brezhov''; lat. ''Brozovia'', or ''Prozzow'') is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 7,336 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is situated in Subcarpathian Voivodeship and is the seat of both Brzozów County and the smaller adminis ...

, Jaćmierz,

Jedlicze Jedlicze is a town in Krosno County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, with a population of 5,645 (02.06.2009). It is home to a petroleum refinery. History The settlement of Jedlicze was founded in the late 14th century, and wa ...

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History

Historical names for the region include ''Doły Sanockie'' (Sanockie Pits) and ''Podole Sanockie'' (Sanockie Podolia); it stretches between

Krosno County __NOTOC__ Krosno County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local gove ...

Sanok County __NOTOC__ Sanok County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the Slovakia, Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish loc ...

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Brzozów County __NOTOC__ Brzozów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...

.Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego, tom III, 1876, n:Karpaty, page 870 In 1854 the first

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in the world started producing oil in village of Bóbrka near

Division

Since there exist many variants of divisions of the mountain ranges and names for the Doły (''Pits''), several divisions are given in the following: *Obniżenie Gorlickie *Kotlina Jasielsko-Krośnieńską *Pogórze Jasielskie * Pogórze Bukowskie

Hiking trails

European walking route E8 The E8 European long distance path or E8 path is one of the European long-distance paths, leading 4,700 km (2,920 miles) across Europe, from Cork in Ireland to Bulgaria. Route After Ireland it crosses the Irish Sea into Wales and then in ...

Iwonicz-Zdrój Iwonicz-Zdrój () is a spa town in south-eastern Poland, in Subcarpathian Voivodship, in Krosno County. It has 1,831 inhabitants (02.06.2009). It is located in the heartland of the Doły Jasielsko Sanockie, Doły (Pits), and its average altitude is ...

– Rymanów-Zdrój -

Puławy Puławy (, also written Pulawy) is a city in eastern Poland, in Lesser Poland's Lublin Voivodeship, at the confluence of the Vistula and Kurówka River, Kurówka Rivers. Puławy is the capital of Puławy County. The city's 2019 population was Cen ...

– Tokarnia (778 m) – Przybyszów – Kamień (717 m) –

Komańcza Komańcza is a village in the Sanok County, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (province) of south-eastern Poland. It is situated in the Bukowsko Upland mountains, located near the towns of Medzilaborce and Palota (in northeastern Slovakia). Ety ...

( Główny Szlak Beskidzki) **Pasmo Bukowicy - Kanasiówka (823 m) – Wisłok Wielki – Tokarnia (778 m), 1 km – Wola Piotrowa File:Pogórze zach. skansen Sanok.jpg, File:Iwonicz zdrojj.jpg, File:Kosciol Haczow.JPG, File:Bukowianie.jpg, File:Sanockie nafta pompa.jpg, File:Odrzykon2 (js).jpg, File:Zamek sanok.JPG, File:Exodus Wola Sękowa multiartistics project.jpg, File:San river (Międzybrodzie near Sanok).jpg, File:Szymbark 2007.jpg, File:Zagorz monastery ruin 2 beentree.jpg, File:0slawa river 2007.jpg, File:Congregatio Sanctae Familiae de Nazareth in Komańcza.jpg, File:Synagoga lesko.jpg, File:Kmiter Burg.jpg, File:Baszta radziecka Biecz.JPG,

Ethnic groups

Poles Pole or poles may refer to: People *Poles (people), another term for Polish people, from the country of Poland * Pole (surname), including a list of people with the name * Pole (musician) (Stefan Betke, born 1967), German electronic music artist ...

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References

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