Jasło Krosno Basin
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The Jasło-Krosno Basin ( Kotlina Jasielsko-Krośnieńska in Polish ) in Poland is a large basin in the Subcarpathian region in the middle of the Central Beskid foothills , which is located at an altitude of approx. 350 to 250 m above sea level. NN lies.
geography
The Gorlice Basin is part of the Central Beskid Foothills and extends between the Strzyżów Mountains and Dynów Mountains in the north and the Jasło Mountains and Buków Mountains in the south, as well as the Gorlice Basin in the west, with which it is the Sanoker flat land forms. In the east are the Sanok-Turka Mountains in the Forest Carpathians . The Ropa , Wisłok , Wisłoka , Jasiołka and San flow through the basin .
The Jasło Krosno basin is densely populated and historically belongs to the Sanok region . One of the larger cities is the Sub-Carpathian Tricity, which consists of Krosno , Jasło and Sanok , with Sanok already on the border with the Forest Carpathians . Other important places in the basin are Biecz and the health resorts Iwonicz-Zdrój and Rymanów-Zdrój .
The fertile region is otherwise characterized by agriculture. Together with the neighboring areas, it belongs to the oldest oil production area in the world. The oil wells are now largely exhausted.
One of the ethnic groups that inhabit the basin are the descendants of the Forest Germans . The basin and the adjacent mountain ranges were the central settlement area of the forest Germans, who were settled here by Casimir the Great after 1340 .
literature
Prof. Jerzy Kondracki. Geografia fizyczna Polski . Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Warszawa. 1988. ISBN 83-01-02323-6
