The Kurówka is a river in South-East

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, and a right tributary of

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River. Its length is approximately 50 kilometres and its basin covers roughly 395.4 km². Its source is located near the village of

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and it joins the Vistula in

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 ...

. Among the notable villages located along the river are

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, Markuszów,

Kurów Kurów () is a town in eastern Poland, located in the historic province of Lesser Poland, between Puławy and Lublin, on the Kurówka River. It is capital of a separate gmina (municipality) called Gmina Kurów, within Lublin Voivodeship. The ...

and

Końskowola Końskowola is a town in eastern Poland (historic Lesser Poland region), located between Puławy and Lublin, near Kurów on the Kurówka River. It is the seat of a separate commune (''gmina'') within Puławy County in Lublin Voivodeship, called Gm ...

. Because the

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production

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uses the river as the main source of water, it has been canalized and separated from the Vistula by a system of

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s and

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s. Apart from smaller streams, the river has two main tributaries: right tributary named Białka (sometimes referred to as Bielkowa), and left tributary named Garbówka (sometimes referred to as ''Struga Kurowska'').

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kurowka Rivers of Poland Rivers of Lublin Voivodeship