Lesser Poland Voivodeship - Województwo małopolskie

Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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Lesser Poland Voivodeship - a voivodeship covering the southern and south-eastern part of the country. It borders with Silesian Voivodeship (from the west), Świętokrzyskie (from the north), Subcarpathian (from the east) and with Slovakia (since noon).

Characteristic

Geography

The area of ​​the voivodeship covers the western part of the historical and geographical region called Małopolska and fragments of two smaller historical lands - Spisz and Orawa. Geographically, the voivodship includes fragments Western Carpathians and the Małopolska Upland.

Małopolskie is bordered by the following voivodeships:

and with countries Prešov and Žilina located in Slovakia.

fauna and Flora

About 60% of the area of ​​the Małopolskie Voivodeship is under legal protection of nature. The nature protection system consists of: 6 national parks (the largest - Tatra, Babia Góra, Gorczański, Pieniny, part of the Magura and the smallest Ojców) and landscape parks with their buffer zones, 85 nature reserves, NATURA 2000 areas, ecological lands, protected landscape areas, nature monuments , nature and landscape complexes, documentation sites, protection zones around animal breeding sites.

Tatra chamois - one of the most endemic species of Małopolska.

There are many species of animals and plants under species protection in the voivodship, including endemic species that are unique in Poland. A wide and varied range of habitats gives a chance to live: insects, including the most common beetles from the families of runners and irises, and about 310 species of butterflies (including apollo, gypsy moth, sphagnum moss). The Orawa river flows through the Orawa-Podhale Basin, which is a natural site of a predatory fish from the salmon family - Danube salmon. Amphibians are represented, among others by the spotted salamander, tree frog, toads, and gray and green toads. The voivodeship is also inhabited by reptiles: sand lizard and vivipar, slow worm and viper. There is a very numerous (approx. 140 species) representation of a group of birds, including: the lesser spotted eagle of prey, a small white-necked fly or the black stork nesting in the crowns of hundred-year-old trees. Representatives of mammals occurring in Małopolska are species of bats rare in the country - often extremely endangered in Europe, high-mountain areas are inhabited by: Tatra chamois, small but well-known rodents, marmots and brown bears weighing more than 500 kg. There are large predators such as the wolf and lynx, which are highly endangered with extinction, as well as a whole range of other species that cannot be enumerated.

Climate

The peak of Babia Góra

The Małopolskie voivodship lies in the temperate climate zone. There is a large amplitude of temperatures resulting from a large variation in altitude. The maximum recorded temperature is 37 ° C and the minimum temperature is -38 ° C.

Snow cover in Tatra Mountains it often lasts from November to mid-May, but rainfall is possible at any time of the year. In other mountain regions, snow covers the slopes until March, and on artificially snowed ski slopes you can ski sometimes even at the beginning of April.

The climate of Małopolska has its anomalies. The best known is mountain - a violent, warm wind that can melt even several dozen centimeters of snow in a few days. On the other hand Oravian is a cold wind blowing from Babia Górawhich can lower the temperature in Podhale by even a few degrees.

History

The Lesser Poland Voivodeship was established in 1999, encompassing a smaller historical and geographical fragment of Małopolska, and a fragment of Spisz and Orawa. They were created from the provinces of the previous administrative division, namely: Kraków, Nowosądecki, Tarnów, Bielsko, Katowice, Kielce and Krosno.

Economy

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Counties

Administrative division of the Małopolskie Voivodeship

The Małopolskie Voivodeship consists of the following poviats:

Town poviats

Land counties

Cities

Tourist and ski resorts

  • buried - the capital of the Tatra Mountains and one of the most popular holiday resorts in the country
  • Białka Tatrzańska - a highlander village in the Tatra district, a popular ski resort
  • Szczawnica - a city in the Pieniny Mountains - the most visited ski arena
  • Krynica-Zdrój - a well-known health resort and one of the largest ski resorts in Poland
  • Muszyna - a health resort with the Dwa Doliny ski center

Interesting places

  • Kąśna Dolna - there is a manor house that belonged to Ignacy Paderewski, pianist, composer, and statesman (1860-1941). It was the Polish house of the master in the years 1897-1903. In 1990, it housed the Paderewski Museum and the seat of the Paderewski Center Tarnów – Kąśna Dolna.
  • Ciężkowice - the Petrified City inanimate nature reserve and the Witches' Gorge
  • Świat Marzeń Miniature Park in Inwałd - an amusement park with miniatures of famous buildings from the country and around the world.
  • Dinolandia in Inwałd
  • Blockage - a small city with two large amusement parks
  • Mountain Sanctuary in Groń John Paul II
  • Zalipie - the village has long been famous for its painted huts. The custom of decorating rural rooms with floral paintings dates back to the end of the 19th century, when village residents began to decorate the interiors of their cottages with flowers made of tissue paper, cutouts and straw spiders hanging from the ceiling and flowers painted on the walls. The paintings were also made on the outer walls of buildings, wells and fences. There is a farm by Felicja Curyłowa, transformed into a museum, and about 20 painted houses.

Transport

The Małopolskie Voivodeship is situated at the crossroads of important communication routes. East-west and north-south transit routes pass through its area: railway lines and national roads.

Road transport

Only 1 motorway (A4) and several national roads run through the voivodeship. These include DK94, DK87, DK79, DK75, DK73, DK52, DK49, DK47, DK44, DK28 and DK7. In addition, several expressways and voivodeship roads run through the Małopolskie Voivodeship. Most of the roads in the voivodeship have an asphalt surface.

Railway transport

There are 1,121 km of railway lines in operation in the Małopolskie Voivodeship (7th place in the country), of which 653 km are single-track lines, and 468 km - double or more tracks. 870 km of railway lines are electrified (as of December 31, 2013). In 2017, a statistical resident of the Małopolskie Voivodeship traveled 4.9 times by train.

There are 26 active railway stations in the voivodeship, 4 of them are entered in the register of monuments: Nowy Sącz, Rabka-Zdrój, Tarnów, Zakopane.

Air Transport

The Krakow-Balice International Airport has regular connections with cities in Europe, North America and Israel. The passenger terminal is being expanded, which, after reconstruction, will be able to serve over 8 million people a year.

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