Poprad River

The Poprad River (Hungarian: Poprád, German: Popper) is a tributary of the Dunajec River in northern Slovakia and southern Poland, near Stary Scz. It stretches for 170 kilometers (63 kilometers of which are inside Polish territory) and has a basin area of 2,077 square kilometers (1,594 km2 of which is in Slovakia, and 483 km2 in Poland).

Much of the Polish portion of the river's basin is protected as Poprad Landscape Park, which includes the Poprad River Gorge, a major tourist attraction between Piwniczna and Rytro. Poprad is the only major Slovak river that flows northward into Poland.

The river runs through the Slovak towns of Poprad, Kemarok, and Stará ubová before forming the Polish-Slovak boundary for 31.1 kilometers and passing through the Polish towns of Krynica-Zdrój, Muszyna, Piwniczna-Zdrój, Rytro, Stary Scz, and egiestów, among others. The term comes from the Proto-Slavic verb prd- (to leap, to flow quickly), which is retained in the Slovak words prias and pradenie (to spin, spinning).

Length: 174.2 km