Bóbr

Bóbr (Czech: Bobr, German: Bober) is a river which runs through the north of the Czech Republic and the southwest of Poland, a left tributary of the Oder.

Course

The Bóbr has a length of 272 kilometres (169 mi) (2 in Czech Republic, 270 in Poland, 10th longest Polish river) and a basin area of 5,876 square kilometres (2,269 sq mi) (46 in Czech Republic and 5,830 in Poland). It originates on a slope of the Rýchory mountains in the southeast of the Krkonoše range. The source is located near the small Bobr village of the Žacléř municipality in the Czech Hradec Králové Region. Parallel to the Lusatian Neisse tributary of the Oder in the west, it flows northwards from the Bohemian region into adjacent Silesia.

Shortly after the river crosses the border to Polish Niedamirów and runs northwestwards through the Jelenia Góra valley of the Western Sudetes to the dam of Pilchowice and downhill into the plains of Lower Silesia, passing the towns of Jelenia Góra, Bolesławiec, Szprotawa, and Żagań, where the parallel Kwisa river joins it. The river finally flows into the Oder near the town of Krosno. Non-navigable for its entire length, it is a popular destination for canoeing.