Key facts
- Countries
- Slovakia Poland
- Location
- High Tatras
- Coordinates
- 49°08′08″N 20°04′35″E / 49.1355°N 20.0765°E / 49.1355; 20.0765
- Elevation
- 1,302.3 m (4,273 ft)
- Mouth
- Dunajec
- Length
- 174.2 km (108.2 mi)
- Basin size
- 2,081 km (803 sq mi)
- Average
- 22.3 m /s (790 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Dunajec → ‹See Tfd› Vistula → Baltic Sea
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Encyclopedic overview
The Poprad forming the Polish-Slovak border The Poprad (Hungarian: Poprád, German: Popper) is a river in northern Slovakia and southern Poland, and a tributary of the Dunajec River near Stary Sącz, Poland. It has a length of 170 kilometres (63 km of which are within the Polish borders) and a basin area of 2,077 km, (1,594 km of which is in Slovakia, and 483 km in Poland). Much of the Polish part of its basin is included in the protected area called Poprad Landscape Park featuring the Poprad River Gorge, a popular tourist destination between the towns of Piwniczna and Rytro.
Poprad is the only large Slovak river flowing north into southern Poland. The river flows through the Slovak towns of Poprad, Kežmarok, Stará Ľubovňa, then forms for 31.1 km the Polish-Slovak border and flows through the Polish towns of Krynica-Zdrój, Muszyna, Piwniczna-Zdrój, Rytro, Stary Sącz, and Żegiestów, among others.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Poprad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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