Arwa basin

Chyżne in the basin with the Tatras in the background (view from the north)

Arwa lake in the basin, view from Babia Góra

The Arwa Basin ( Kotlina Orawska in Polish , Oravská kotlina in Slovak ) in Poland and Slovakia is a large basin in Lesser Poland and the Arwa . Most of it is in Slovakia.

geography

The Arwa Basin is part of the Arwa region and extends along the Arwa River ( Arwa Lake Reservoir ) between the West Beskids ( Arwa-Podhale Beskids or Saybuscher Beskids and Oravská Magura ) in the north and the Tatra foothills ( Pogórze Spisko-Gubałowskie ) in the South. The Neumarkt Basin joins in the east , with which it forms the Arwa-Neumarkt Basin . In the west is the Arwa promontory .

The Arwa Basin is densely populated. Important places in the basin are: Chyżne , Tvrdošín , Trstená and Námestovo . The fertile and climatically favorably located region is otherwise agricultural, especially cattle breeding.

DK 7 ( European route 77 ), a section of the Krakow - Budapest connection, runs through the basin in a north-south direction .

The ethnic group that inhabits the basin are the Arwa Gorals .

literature

Jerzy Kondracki: Geografia fizyczna Polski . Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Warszawa. 1988. ISBN 83-01-02323-6 .

panorama

Panorama of Wróblówka (view from the northeast)