The Mosiński Canal () is a canalized branch of the Obra River running entirely within western-central

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 ...

. It connects the

Warta River The river Warta ( , ; ; ) rises in central Poland and meanders greatly through the Polish Plain in a north-westerly direction to flow into the Oder at Kostrzyn nad Odrą on Poland's border with Germany. About long, it the second-longest rive ...

at the village of

Mosina Mosina is a town in Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, south of Poznań, with 12,107 inhabitants (2004). The Mosiński Canal runs east and west through the town, and joins the Warta River just to the east. History Mosina is o ...

(), then runs roughly east to an intersection with other Obra canals at a point north of

Kościan Kościan () () is a town on the Obra, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Obra canal in west-central Poland, with a population of 23,952 inhabitants as of June 2014. Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, it is the capital of Kościan County. History ...

. The canal has a length of about 26 kilometers, and was built in the middle of the 1800s. In Borkowice, close to Mosina, a small hydroelectric plant built in the 1990s interrupts the channel. Mosiński Canal is one of the four ''Obrzańskich'' channels in the Obra watershed. The others are the Kanał Północny, the Kanał Środkowy, and the "Island" canals which connect to the River.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mosinski Canal Canals in Poland Geography of Greater Poland Voivodeship Canals opened in 1859