Tag - Chochołowski Stream
Chochołowski Stream – a stream flowing through the bottom of the Chochołowska Valley in the Western Tatra Mountains. It is considered the middle course of the Czarny Dunajec River. The upper course is the Wyżni Chochołowski Stream. The name Chochołowski Stream covers the stream on the section from the mouth of the Jarząbczy Stream to the mouth of the Koryciańska Siklawa. The section from the mouth of the latter to the mouth of the Kirowa Woda is called the Siwa Woda. The length of the stream in the Tatras is 8.86 km.
The sources of the Wyżni Chochołowski Stream are located at an altitude of about 1,430 m a.s.l. in the rock threshold of the Dziurawe glacial cirque under Wołowiec. Below the mouth of the Jarząbczy Stream, the Chochołowski Stream is formed.
On its route, the stream flows through all types of rocks that make up the Chochołowska Valley. In its upper part (the Chochołowska Wyżnia Valley), its bottom is made of hard metamorphic and crystalline rocks. Here, the stream’s influence on the terrain is small – the valleys were mainly shaped by the glacier. Below the Chochołowska Glade, the stream flows through soft sedimentary rocks – limestones and dolomites. In these limestone rocks, the stream has carved a deep ravine and numerous underground channels and cracks into which water flows. The result of these karst phenomena are numerous ponors, i.e. places where the stream loses water and then flows out in another place below. In the lower reaches, small streams from the Długa Valley, Małe Koryciska and Wielkie Koryciska flow into the Chochołowski Stream. In the Huciska Glade, the stream spreads out widely. At the outlet from the Tatras, the channel reaches a width of up to 8 m and is entirely formed in the accumulation material brought by the stream. From the mouth of the stream from Wielkie Koryciska it changes its name to Siwa Woda.
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