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Przekop Wisły

Przekop (Polish pronunciation:  [ˈpʂɛkɔp] ), (German: Weichseldurchstich) located in Poland, is a branch of the Vistula river in its delta. It is also referred to as Przekop Wisły, which translates literally as Vistula Dug-through from Polish.

Poland Republic in Central Europe

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of 312,696 square kilometres (120,733 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With a population of approximately 38.5 million people, Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin.

Vistula river in Eastern Europe

The Vistula, the longest and largest river in Poland, is the 9th-longest river in Europe, at 1,047 kilometres in length. The drainage-basin area of the Vistula is 193,960 km2 (74,890 sq mi), of which 168,868 km2 (65,200 sq mi) lies within Poland. The remainder lies in Belarus, Ukraine and Slovakia.

River delta Silt deposition landform at the mouth of a river

A river delta is a landform created by deposition of sediment that is carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water. This occurs where a river enters an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, or another river that cannot carry away the supplied sediment. The size and shape of a delta is controlled by the balance between watershed processes that supply sediment, and receiving basin processes that redistribute, sequester, and export that sediment. The size, geometry, and location of the receiving basin also plays an important role in delta evolution. River deltas are important in human civilization, as they are major agricultural production centers and population centers. They can provide coastline defense and can impact drinking water supply. They are also ecologically important, with different species' assemblages depending on their landscape position.

It was artificially created in 1895 to link the Leniwka branch with Gdańsk Bay near the village of Świbno. [1] Currently, the main current of the Vistula reaches the sea through Przekop.

Leniwka river, Poland

The Leniwka is a river in northern Poland, one of the branches of the Vistula. It is 55.4 kilometres (34.4 mi) long, and flows into Gdańsk Bay, forming the southern border of Ostrów Island and Sobieszewo Island.

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