Kanna | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lesser Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Dąbrowa |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Bolesław |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 50.2833°N 73°W |
Area Total Ha: | 462 |
Kanna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bolesław, within Dąbrowa County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.[1]
It lies approximately 3km (02miles) west of Bolesław, 150NaN0 north-west of Dąbrowa Tarnowska, and 800NaN0 east of the regional capital Kraków.
It is in the north-eastern end of the Malopolska province, in the bend of the Wisła River in front of the mouth of Nida.
Many animals call the village home, including; badger, marten, European pine marten, weasel, boar, moose, deer and beavers. Additionally, Hamster European can be found, a legally protected animal. The birds include the Accipitrinae, common raven, goldfinch, lesser spotted eagle, common kestrel necked, tern, northern lapwing, cormorant, corncrake and woodpecker, Eurasian eagle-owl or buzzard.
Climate areas belonging to the Sandomierz Basin are among the warmest in Poland. The average temperature inJuly is above 19 °C, average January -30 °C. The growing season is around 220 days, with annual rainfall of 600 – 700 mm.
Aa brick chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary was built in 1871. Its baroque-shaped signature tower rises high above the roofs of the village. The chapel was restored in 2007.
People work in the Song and Dance Ensemble.
The village hosts a playground.
A Volunteer Fire Department is located in the House of the People.
Microbus private lines and a buses provide transport.
The village can be reached from Cracow and Sandomierz by national . The ferry Nowy Korczyn/Borusowa crosses the Wisła. Provincial road connects with Żabno Szczucin.
The villages hosts75 households. 13% work exclusively on farms, 80% farm + earn non-agricultural wages, and the remaining 7% are mainly non-agricultural wages and other income sources.[2]