The
Bystrytsia-Nadvirnyanska, a typical mountain river; in its lower course
(Subcarpathia), a river of the plains, has a length of and a
drainage basin of , and the
Bystrytsia-Solotvynska half has a length of and a drainage basin of . Both of the branches, typical mountain rivers, of the Bystrytsia river take their source in the
Gorgany Mountains of the
Carpathian mountain range in the Ukrainian
Oblast of
Ivano-Frankivsk. With the city of
Ivano-Frankivsk, the administrative center of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, the two branches merge, and then flow south of
Halych near the town of
Yezupil, where the river finally flows into the Dniester. The name,
Bystrytsia, comes from the Slavic word "бистрий" - bystry, which is translated as
fast or
fast moving. ==References==