Drwęca Warmińska

Drwęca Warmińska — a river in the Warmian-Masurian province, the right tributary of the Pasłęka River. Most of the river's course is located in Warmia. The town of Orneta is located on the river. In historical sources, the river appeared under the names: Drewenz (1926), Dribentz (1595), Drywantze (1287), Drawant, Drewant (1282), Drywanz (1261). The name Drwęca Warmińska was officially introduced in 1949, replacing the previous German name, Drewenz. The nickname Warmian distinguishes it from the Drwęca, a tributary of the Vistula River. The river flows through the Old Prussian Plain and the Warmian Plain. The sources, in the form of small streams, are located in the Górowskie Hills, at an altitude of 125 meters above sea level, near the village of Glądy in the municipality of Górowo Iławeckie. The length of the river is 53.4 kilometers, and the basin area is 327.7 km2. In its middle course it flows through a forested valley, strongly meandering, through the Orneta Plain. It flows into the Pasleka River at its 70.1 kilometer, about 8 kilometers below Orneta, near the villages of Drwęczno and Bogatyńskie. On the Drwęca Warmińska River lie the villages of: Stabunity, Drwęca, Zaręby, Runowo, Bugi, Krasny Bór, Kaszuny, Mingajny, Bludyny, Krosno, Orneta, Drwęczno. The basin of the Drwęca Warmińska River is characterized by an extensive river system, with a significant predominance of

Flows through: Poland.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.