Sandomir Basin
The Sandomir Basin (Polish: Kotlina Sandomierska ) in Poland is a large basin in Lesser Poland in the Northern Carpathian Mountains . It covers an area of around 15,000 km² and extends over the voivodeships of Lesser Poland , Świętokrzyskie , Subcarpathian and Lublin . In the east it extends into Ukraine .
geography
The Sandomir Basin is traversed by the Vistula in a south-west-north-east direction . The Carpathian rivers flow into the Vistula :
The Malopolska Plateau joins the basin to the north . To the south are the Carpathians . The basin is connected to the Auschwitz basin via the Krakauer Tor in the west . The Lesser Poland Vistula Gorge connects the basin with the Mazovian Basin in the north.
The Sandomir Basin is densely populated. Larger metropolitan areas are the eastern districts of Kraków , Dębica , Jarosław , Mielec , Przemyśl , Przeworsk , Rzeszów , Stalowa Wola , Sandomierz , Tarnobrzeg , Tarnów and the eponymous Sandomierz. The region is otherwise characterized by agriculture.
It can be divided into further sub-regions:
- Vistula plain
- Salzberger Mountains
- Tarnów plateau
- Lower Wisłoka Valley
- Tarnobrzeg plain
- Lower San Valley
- Biłgoraj plain
- Kolbuszowa plateau
- Tarnogród plateau
- Subcarpathian glacial valley
- Rzeszów foothills
The Vistula and its tributaries in the basin are largely natural and not developed into waterways. Therefore, commercial shipping on the Vistula section between Krakow and Sandomierz does not play a major role.
literature
Prof. Jerzy Kondracki. Geografia fizyczna Polski. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Warszawa. 1988. ISBN 83-01-02323-6
See also
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