The Bystrzyca is a river of
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 ...
, a left tributary of the
Oder
The Oder ( ; Czech and ) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and its largest tributary the Warta. The Oder rises in the Czech Republic and flows through wes ...
,
which it meets a few kilometers north (downstream) from
Wrocław
Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...
.
The Bystrzyca was dammed in 1917 near the village of
Lubachów to create Lake Lubachowskie, and dammed at
Mietków in 1974 to create the large reservoir Zalew Mietkowski. The river also forms the western boundary of the
Owl Mountains
The Owl Mountains (; ; ; ) are a mountain range of the Central Sudetes, Central Sudetes in southwestern Poland. It includes a protected area called Owl Mountains Landscape Park.
Geography
The Owl Mountains cover an area of about and stretch ove ...
range in the
Central Sudetes
The Sudetes ( ), also known as the Sudeten Mountains or Sudetic Mountains, is a geomorphological subprovince of the Bohemian Massif province in Central Europe, shared by the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. They consist mainly of mountain rang ...
.
Among its tributaries is the
Strzegomka.
See also
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Bystrzyca (disambiguation)
References
Rivers of Poland
Rivers of Lower Silesian Voivodeship
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