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{{Infobox river
| name              = Dunajec
| name_other        = 
| image             = Widok z Trzech Koron w Pieninach, 20231014 1446 2508.jpg
| image_caption     = Dunajec viewed from [[Trzy Korony]]
| source1_location  = confluence of [[Czarny Dunajec]] and [[Biały Dunajec_(river)|Biały Dunajec]]
| source1_coordinates= 
| mouth_location    = [[Vistula]]
| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|50.2431|N|20.7283|E|source:kolossus-plwiki|display=it}}
| progression       = {{RVistula}}
| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = [[Slovakia]], [[Poland]]
| length_km = 249 
| source1_elevation = 
| discharge1_avg    = {{convert|85.5|m3/s|abbr=on}}  
| basin_size_km2 = 6796 
}}

The '''Dunajec''' ({{IPA|pl|duˈnajɛt͡s}}; Goral dialects: ''Dónajec''; {{IPA|sk|ˈdunajet͡s}}) is a [[river]] running through northeastern [[Slovakia]] and southern [[Poland]]. It is also regarded as the main river of the Goral Lands. It is a right [[tributary]] of the [[Vistula]] River. It begins in [[Nowy Targ]] at the junction of two short mountain rivers, [[Czarny Dunajec]] and [[Biały Dunajec_(river)|Biały Dunajec]] (Black and White Dunajec). Dunajec forms the border between Poland and [[Slovakia]] for {{convert|17|km}}<ref name=yearbook/> in the [[Pieniny]] Środkowe (Slovak: Centrálne Pieniny) [[Mountain range|range]], east of the [[Czorsztyn]] [[reservoir]].

==Geography==
The Dunajec is {{convert|249|km}} long, including its source river [[Czarny Dunajec (river)|Czarny Dunajec]],<ref name=yearbook>[http://stat.gov.pl/download/gfx/portalinformacyjny/en/defaultaktualnosci/3328/2/17/1/statistical_yearbook_of_the_republic_of_poland_2017.pdf Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland 2017], [[Central Statistical Office (Poland)|Statistics Poland]], p. 85-86</ref> which makes it Poland's thirteenth longest river. It has a [[drainage basin|basin area]] of {{convert|6,796|km2}} ({{convert|4,838|km2|disp=sqbr|abbr=values}} in Poland, and {{convert|1958|km2|disp=sqbr|abbr=values}} in Slovakia).<ref name=yearbook/> On the Slovak-Polish border, the Dunajec flows through the [[Zamagurie]] region, with attractions such as the [[Dunajec River Gorge]], the [[Trzy Korony]] [[massif]] with a {{convert|500|m|ft}} [[precipice]], [[Červený Kláštor]], and two [[Pieniny]] castles in [[Czorsztyn]] and [[Niedzica Castle|Niedzica]].

Below the two source streams, the Dunajec flows through a broad valley called Nowotarska Basin. It then supplies the waters of the dam in [[Niedzica]] (Jezioro Czorsztyńskie Lake) and the dam in [[Sromowce Wyżne]] (Sromowce Wyżne reservoir). Flowing through the central part of the [[Pieniny]] range, it creates a picturesque turn at the Polish Slovak border between [[Sromowce Wyżne]] and [[Szczawnica]], where it flows by [[Kotuńka]] rock which differentiates the area from the over parts of the river. Further down, it turns to the north into the Western [[Beskids|Beskid]] Mountains, and Sądecka Basin (where it merges with its own largest tributary, the Poprad river). It flows across an open valley of the Beskid Foothills and falls down across [[Rożnów, Lesser Poland Voivodeship|Rożnów]] Foothills (with two more dams: the Jezioro Rożnowskie Lake, and Jezioro Czchowskie Lake) and finally, it leads into the [[Sandomierz]] Basin and the valley of Vistula Lowlands. The Dunajec flows into the [[Vistula River]] in the vicinity of [[Opatowiec]].

== Towns and townships ==
[[File:Pieniny-map2.png|thumb|upright=2.5|Dunajec in the [[Pieniny]] Środkowe [[Mountain range|range]] (Slovak: Centrálne Pieniny) forming a 27 km border between Poland and Slovakia]]
The Dunajec flows through or near these locations in Poland and north Slovakia:
{| cellspacing="3"
|-
| valign="Top" |
* '''Dunajec River'''
** [[Spišská Stará Ves]]
** [[Majere (village)|Majere]]
** [[Lechnica]]
** [[Červený Kláštor]]
** [[Lesnica, Stará Ľubovňa|Lesnica]]
** [[Nowy Targ]]
** [[Maniowy]]
** [[Czorsztyn]]
** [[Szczawnica]]
** [[Krościenko nad Dunajcem]]
** [[Łącko, Lesser Poland Voivodeship|Łącko]]
** [[Stary Sącz]]
** [[Nowy Sącz]]
** [[Gródek nad Dunajcem]]
** [[Czchów]]
** [[Zakliczyn]]
** [[Wojnicz]]
** [[Tarnów]]
** [[Żabno]]
| valign="Top" |
* '''Biały Dunajec''' (tributary)
** [[Zakopane]]
** [[Poronin]]
** [[Biały Dunajec]]
** [[Szaflary]]
** [[Nowy Targ]]
* '''Czarny Dunajec''' (tributary)
** [[Kościelisko]]
** [[Czarny Dunajec]]
** [[Nowy Targ]]
|}

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="180px" heights="180px" perrow="5">
File:Niedzica Castle, Niedzica-Zamek village, Nowy Targ County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.jpg|[[Niedzica Castle]] with the [[Czorsztyn Castle]] ruins in the background
File:CervenyKlastor11Slovakia6.JPG|Dunajec and the [[Trzy Korony]] Mountain
File:A MG 5185 Panorama.jpg|Dunajec in autumn
File:Przełom Pieniński a1.jpg|[[Dunajec Gorge]] in the [[Pieniny]] mountains
File:Szczawnica Dunajec 3.jpg|Dunajec in [[Szczawnica]]
File:Nowy Sącz zza Dunajca.JPG|Dunajec in [[Nowy Sącz]]
File:20170814 Jezioro Rożnowskie z Tabaszowej 5398 DxO.jpg|[[Lake Rożnów]]
File:Roznow zapora.jpg|Rożnów dam
File:Zamek Tropsztyn - ZJ001.jpg|[[Tropsztyn Castle]]
File:Czchów i Dunajec, kwiecień 2021.jpg|[[Czchów Castle]]
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Commons category|Dunajec}}
* [[Dunajec River Gorge]]
* [[Rivers of Poland]]
* [[Rivers of Slovakia]]
* [[1934 flood in Poland]]
* [[Dunajec river castles]]

==References==
<references />
* [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/173574/Dunajec-River  Dunajec River at Encyclopædia Britannica]

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