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Key facts
- Country
- Poland (457 km), Ukraine (1 km)
- Cities
- Lesko , Sanok , Przemyśl , Jarosław , Stalowa Wola
- Source
- Uzhok Pass
- Location
- Piniashkovy Mount , Bukovec Mountains , Ukraine
- Coordinates
- 49°00′19″N 22°52′43″E / 49.00528°N 22.87861°E / 49.00528; 22.87861
- Elevation
- 900 m (3,000 ft)
- Mouth
- Vistula
- Length
- 458 km (285 mi), S → N
- Basin size
- 16,877 km (6,516 sq mi)
- Average
- 129 m /s (4,600 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- Vistula → Baltic Sea
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Ukraine
- Located in
- Podkarpackie Voivodeship
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- San z Sobnia.jpg
- Length
- 444
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- watershed area
- 16700
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- Commons category
- San (river)
- mouth of the watercourse
- Vistula
- category for the water basin
- Category:San basin
- drainage basin
- Vistula basin
- tributary
- Bukowa
- Commons gallery
- San
- origin of the watercourse
- Carpathians
- discharge
- 124.0
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- lake on watercourse
- Lake Solina
- basin country
- Ukraine
- different from
- San
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Encyclopedic overview
Monument erected at the spring of San river, on Ukrainian-Polish border. Outflow from Lake Solina Midsummer fire (Sobótka) at San river The San (Polish: San; Ukrainian: Сян, romanized: Sian; German: Saan) is a river in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. It is a tributary of the river Vistula. With a length of 458 kilometres (285 mi), the San is the 6th-longest Polish river. It has a basin area of 16,877 km, of which 14,426 km is in Poland. It is also one of Europe's last semi-wild large rivers, as unlike most major European rivers, the San is relatively unregulated, especially in its upper course. Some stretches even retain its natural meanders, and seasonal flooding patterns, that is because it flows through the mostly sparesely populated Bieszczady region, which makes it also a great place for the fauna and flora to live and settle, creating a lot of biodiversity compared to other large rivers in Europe.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “San” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (6)
On the map
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