Rybi Potok

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Rybi Potok
Rybi Potok while flowing through the mountain lake Żabie Oko

Rybi Potok while flowing through the mountain lake Żabie Oko

Data
location Slovakia , Poland
River system Vistula
Drain over Białka  → Dunajec  → Vistula  → Baltic Sea
source Bergsee Meerauge
49 ° 12 ′ 5 ″  N , 20 ° 4 ′ 19 ″  E Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 5 ″  N , 20 ° 4 ′ 19 ″  E
Source height 1395  m npm
muzzle in the Białka
Mouth height 1025  m npm
Height difference 370 m
Bottom slope 74 ‰
length 5 km
Flowing lakes Sea eye , Żabie Oko , Małe Żabie Oko , Małe Morskie Oko
Communities Bukowina Tatrzańska

The Rybi Potok is an approximately six kilometers long left tributary of the Białka in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland and Slovakia . It has the character of a high mountain river.

geography

The river has its source in the mountain lake Meerauge in the valley Dolina Rybiego Potoku in the High Tatras . Several small mountain streams flow into the lake. a. Czarnostawiański Potok from the mountain lake Czarny Staw pod Rysami . It flows through the lakes Żabie Oko , Małe Żabie Oko and Małe Morskie Oko . Shortly before it flows into the Białka, it represents the border between Poland and Slovakia. The upper part of the Oswald-Balzer-Weg panoramic road runs along the river . The course of the river is located in the Tatra National Park .

Surname

The name Rybi Potok, Fischbach or Fischseebach, comes from the numerous trout in the river.

Flora and fauna

The water of Rybi Potok is clean, rainbow trout, trout, grayling, bullhead and minnow live in the river. The river is surrounded by spruce forests.

tourism

The river can be reached via a red marked hiking trail.

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 .

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