Pilica is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...

in central

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, the longest left tributary of the

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river, with a length of 333 kilometres (8th longest) and a basin area of 9,258 km² (all in Poland).Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland 2017

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, p. 85-86 It flows through the Polish Jura, after which it enters Central Polish Plains. Pilica flows into the Vistula near the village of Ostrowek, in a geographical region of Central Vistula Valley. In 1974, a dam was built near Sulejow, resulting in the creation of man-made reservoir Sulejow Lake, which has the area of 2,700 hectares. The region in the basin of the Pilica is sometimes called Nadpilicze, and the river itself marks boundary between

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, and two other historical provinces of the country, Greater Poland and

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. The first "open-air river museum" in Poland, the Open-air museum of Pilica river, is located on the waterway and the Blue Springs nature reserve lies next to the river.

Towns

* Pilica * Szczekociny * Koniecpol * Przedbórz * Sulejów *

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Spała Spała is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Inowłódz, within Tomaszów Mazowiecki County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies on the Pilica River, approximately west of Inowłódz, east of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, an ...

* Inowłódz * Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą * Wysmierzyce * Białobrzegi *

Warka Warka ( yi, ווארקע) is a town in east-central Poland, located on the left bank of the Pilica river ( south of Warsaw), with 11,035 inhabitants (2004). It has been situated in Grójec County, in the Masovian Voivodeship, since 1999; p ...

Left tributaries

* Luciąża * Rykolanka * Wolborka

Right tributaries

* Czarna (Włoszczowska) * Czarna (Konecka) * Drzewiczka

A kayak route

A 228 km long "Szlak wodny Pilicy" is a kayak route on Pilica River. It begins in Zarzecze near Szczekociny and ends on a mouth of the Pilica River. Points on the route: * Zarzecze near Szczekociny * Przedbórz * Faliszew * Skotniki (

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) * Sulejów * Sulejowski Reservoir *

* Inowłódz * Żądłowice * Grotowice * Domaniewice * Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą * Białobrzegi *

*a mouth of the Pilica River A section of the river is a Natura 2000 EU

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Towns

Left tributaries

Right tributaries

A kayak route

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