Mnichowski Potok

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Mnichowski Potok

Mnichowski Potok

Data
location Poland
River system Vistula
Drain over Rybi Potok  → Białka  → Dunajec  → Vistula  → Baltic Sea
source (anonymous)
49 ° 11 ′ 25 ″  N , 20 ° 3 ′ 6 ″  E
Source height 1500  m npm
muzzle in the Bergsee Meerauge coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 48 ″  N , 20 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E 49 ° 11 ′ 48 ″  N , 20 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E
Mouth height 1395  m npm
Height difference 205 m
Bottom slope 21%
length 1 km
Flowing lakes Sea eye
Communities Bukowina Tatrzańska

The Mnichowski Potok is an approximately one kilometer long left tributary of the Meerauge and thus the Rybi Potok in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland . It has the character of a high mountain river.

geography

The river has its source on the eastern slope of the mountain Mnich in the High Tatras and falls in the waterfall Dwoista Siklawa into the Meerauge . It thus represents one of the headwaters of the Rybi Potok . The entire course of the river is located in the Tatra National Park .

Surname

The Mnichowski Potok can be translated as "Mönchsbach".

Flora and fauna

The water of the Mnichowski Potok is clean, it flows above the tree line.

tourism

Below the river, a red marked hiking trail leads around the Meerauge mountain lake.

River course

literature

  • Zofia Radwańska-Paryska, Witold Henryk Paryski, Wielka encyklopedia tatrzańska, Poronin, Wyd. Górskie, 2004, ISBN 83-7104-009-1 .
  • Tatry Wysokie słowackie i polskie. Mapa turystyczna 1: 25.000, Warszawa, 2005/06, Polkart ISBN 83-87873-26-8 .