Słudwia is a river in Central Poland. Its source is located near the village of
Długołęka. The river flows for through the Kutno Plains, before joining the
Bzura near the town of
Łowicz
Łowicz is a town in central Poland with 27,436 inhabitants (2021). It is situated in the Łódź Voivodeship. Together with a nearby station of Bednary, Łowicz is a major rail junction of central Poland, where the line from Warsaw splits into ...
. Its
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
area is . The river is best known for the 1928
Maurzyce Bridge built across it, the first welded road bridge in the world, designed by
Stefan Bryła.
[Wai-Fah Chen, Lian Duan, ''Handbook of International Bridge Engineering'' (, 2013), page 601]
References
Rivers of Poland
Rivers of Łódź Voivodeship
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