Ochotnica Dolna | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lesser Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Nowy Targ |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Ochotnica Dolna |
Coordinates: | 49.5333°N 39°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 2100 |
Ochotnica Dolna is a village in Nowy Targ County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Ochotnica Dolna. It lies approximately 23km (14miles) east of Nowy Targ and 650NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Kraków.[1]
The extended village has a population of 2,100. Along with Ochotnica Górna (split off in 1910), it forms one of the longest villages in Poland. Ochotnica is a recreational village and a winter sports destination located in the valley of Gorce Mountains beneath the Gorce National Park.[2]
The village has been a site of a massacre of local Polish population by German Nazis in 1944.