Vistula River - Krakow, Poland
Posted by: Metro2
N 50° 03.210 E 019° 56.045
34U E 423694 N 5545123
The Vistula River is 651 miles long...the longest river in Poland.
Coordinates set here adjacent to Wawel Hill.
Waymark Code: WMQ137
Location: Małopolskie, Poland
Date Posted: 11/26/2015
Views: 16
Wikipedia (
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"The Vistula ... is the longest and largest river in Poland, at 1,047 kilometres (651 miles) in length. The drainage basin area of the Vistula is 194,424 km2 (75,068 sq mi), of which 168,699 km2 (65,135 sq mi) lies within Poland (splitting the country in half). The remainder is in Belarus, Ukraine and Slovakia.
The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland, 1,220 meters (4,000 ft) above sea level in the Silesian Beskids (western part of Carpathian Mountains), where it begins with the White Little Vistula (Biala Wiselka) and the Black Little Vistula (Czarna Wiselka). It then continues to flow over the vast Polish plains, passing several large Polish cities along its way, including Kraków, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Plock, Wloclawek, Torun, Bydgoszcz, Swiecie, Grudziadz, Tczew and Gdansk. It empties into the Vistula Lagoon (Zalew Wislany) or directly into the Gdansk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta and several branches (Leniwka, Przekop, Smiala Wisla, Martwa Wisla, Nogat and Szkarpawa)."