Ujście Warty Landscape Park, also, Warta River Mouth Landscape Park, is a protected area

Protected area

Protected areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognised natural, ecological and/or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international...

 (a Landscape Park

Landscape Park (Poland)

A Landscape Park is the name given in Poland to a type of protected area, of lower status than a National Park and with less stringent restrictions on development and economic use....

) in western Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, along the lower stretches of the Warta river as it approaches its confluence

Confluence

Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water.Confluence may also refer to:* Confluence , a property of term rewriting systems...

 with the Odra (Oder). The Park was established in 1996.

The Park is mostly within Lubusz Voivodeship

Lubusz Voivodeship

- Administrative division :Lubusz Voivodeship is divided into 14 counties : 2 city counties and 12 land counties. These are further divided into 83 gminas....

, although it also extends northwards along the east bank of the Odra into West Pomeranian Voivodeship

West Pomeranian Voivodeship

West Pomeranian Voivodeship, , is a voivodeship in northwestern Poland. It borders on Pomeranian Voivodeship to the east, Greater Poland Voivodeship to the southeast, Lubusz Voivodeship to the south, the German federal-state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania to the west, and the Baltic Sea to the north...

 (Myślibórz County

Myslibórz County

Myślibórz County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998...

, Gmina Boleszkowice

Gmina Boleszkowice

Gmina Boleszkowice is a rural gmina in Myślibórz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, on the German border...

). It borders the Ujście Warty National Park

Ujscie Warty National Park

The Ujście Warty National Park, also, Warta River Mouth National Park, is the youngest of Poland's 23 National Parks. It was created on June 19, 2001, in the region of the lowest stretch of the Warta river, up to its confluence with the Odra , which marks the Polish–German border. The Park...

, which was established in 2001 (formerly being part of the Landscape Park). The name Ujście Warty means "mouth of the Warta", the Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

 word ujście also being used for the termination of a river

River

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

even when it flows into another river or lake rather than the sea.