Belitsa
General data
- Name: Belitsa
- Water system: Danube
- Water type: River
- Progression: Yantra -> Danube -> Black sea -> Mediterranean Sea -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
- Climates:
- Continents: Europe
- Countries: Bulgaria
The Belitsa is a 57 km-long river in northern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the river Yantra. The Belitsa takes its source under the name Stanchovhanska reka at an altitude of 718 m, on the southwestern foothills of the summit of Varbanov Chukar (829 m) in the Tryavna division of the Balkan Mountains. At the town of Debelets the river receives its largest tributary the Dryanovska reka and in 2 km flows into the Yantra at an altitude of 142 m in the Cholakovtsi neighbourhood of the city of Veliko Tarnovo. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 740 km2.
