San (river)
The San (Ukrainian: Сян, Syan, German: Saan) is a river in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, a tributary of the Vistula River, with a length of 433 km (it is the 6th-longest Polish river) and a basin area of 16,861 km2 (14,390 km2 of it in Poland). The San arises in the Carpathian Mountains near the village of Sianky, at an elevation of 900 metres, exactly on the Polish-Ukrainian border (49°00′10″N 22°52′30″E / 49.00278°N 22.875°E / 49.00278; 22.875Coordinates: 49°00′10″N 22°52′30″E / 49.00278°N 22.875°E / 49.00278; 22.875) and on the continental watershed, and forms the border between Poland and Ukraine for approximately its first 50 km. Poland's largest artificial lake, Lake Solina, was created by a dam on the San River near Lesko.
San, in proto-Indoeuropean languages, means "speed" or "rapid stream." In Celtic languages, San means "river."
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Famous quotes containing the word san:
“the San Marco Library,
Whence turbulent Italy should draw
Delight in Art whose end is peace,
In logic and in natural law
By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)