Sandezer Basin

View from the Pogórze Rożnowskie in summer with the Tatras in the background (view from the northeast)

Stary Sącz

The Sandezer Basin ( Kotlina Sądecka in Polish ) in Poland is a large basin in Lesser Poland in the middle of the West Beskids . It is located at an altitude of 280 to 300 m above sea level. NN and covers an area of ​​approx. 300 km².

geography

The Sandezer Basin is part of the Beskids and extends at the confluence of the Dunajec and Poprad as well as the Kamienica between the Sandezer Beskids ( Radziejowa ridge and Jaworzyna ridge ) in the south, the island Beskids in the northwest, the Lower Beskids in the east and the Pogórze Rożnowskie in the North.

The Sandez basin is densely populated. The only bigger cities are Nowy Sącz and Stary Sącz . The fertile region is otherwise characterized by agriculture. She is known for her fruit growing.

The ethnic group that inhabits the basin are the Sandezer Lachen .

literature

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

panorama

Panorama of the Radziejowa ridge in the Sandets Beskids (view from the south)