Eastern Suwałki Lake District
| Eastern Suwałki Lake District
Pojezierze Wschodniosuwalskie
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.jpg) Lake Hańcza |
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| Highest peak | Rowelska Góra ( 299 m ) | |
| location | Warmia-Masuria , Podlasie , Poland | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 16 ′ N , 22 ° 49 ′ E | |
The Eastern Suwałki Lake District (Pol. Pojezierze Wschodniosuwalskie ) is a Masoregion and lakes landscape in the provinces Warmia-Mazury and Podlasie in Poland .
location
The Eastern Suwałki Lake District is part of the Lithuanian Lake District ( Suwałki Lake District ). The Rominter Heide and the Western Suwałki Lake District join in the west and the Augustów plain in the south . The lake district is located in the far north-east of Poland and borders on Russia and Lithuania .
geology
The Eastern Suwałki Lake District consists of a large number of lakes in a moraine landscape. Characteristic of this landscape are glacial channels between the hills, created by the erosive effect of the meltwater when the glaciers melted , which later took up the lakes.
Lakes
The largest lake is the Wigry (21.7 km²). The deepest lake in Poland is Hańcza, which is 113 meters high .
Rivers
The Eastern Suwałki Lake District drains mainly to the northeast via the Memel into the Baltic Sea . The most important rivers are the Czarna Hańcza and the Błędzianka .
Moraines
The highest moraines in the area are the Rowelska Góra with 299 meters above sea level, the Krzemieniucha with 289 meters above sea level, the Jesionowa Góra with 252 meters above sea level and the hill country Góry Sudawskie with 250 meters above sea level. The Rolewska Góra is also the highest point in the Podlaskie Voivodeship . There is a ski lift on Jesionowa Góra in winter.
colonization
The Eastern Suwałki Lake District is sparsely populated. The only city is Sejny .
nature
The Wigierski National Park is located on Lake Wigry .
literature
- Andrzej Ber: Pojezierze Suwalsko-Augustowskie. Przewodnik Geologiczny. Wydawnictwa Geologiczne, Warszawa 1981, ISBN 83-220-0131-2 .
