Równina Mazurska
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Masurian Plain
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 Lake Nidzkie |
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| location | Warmia-Masuria , Poland | |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 38 ′ N , 21 ° 49 ′ E | |
The Równina Mazurska , German Masurian Plain , is a mesoregion and lake landscape in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland .
location
The Równina Mazurska is the southernmost part of the Masurian Lake District . In the north it borders on the Great Masurian Lakes and the Sensburger Lakeland , on the west by the Löbauer back and the Olsztyn Lake District , on the east by the Ełk region Lake District and the south by the Kurpengauer level and Mławaer hills that are already part of Nordmasowischen lowlands are .
geology
The Równina Mazurska 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. The lake density decreases from north to south. The region is densely forested. In the south-west and south-east are the primeval forests of Rudczanny-Heide and Johannisburger Heide .
Lakes
The largest lakes are:
Rivers
The Równina Mazurska drains the southern part of the Great Masurian Lakes via the Pisa into the Narew and further into the Vistula . Other important rivers in the region are:
colonization
The Równina Mazurska is sparsely populated. The most important small towns include:
literature
- Jerzy Kondracki: Geografia regionalna Polski. Warszawa 2002, PWN, ISBN 83-01-13897-1 .
