Blatnitsa
General data
- Name: Blatnitsa
- Water system: Maritsa (Evros)
- Water type: River
- Progression: Sazliyka -> Maritsa (Evros) -> Aegean Sea -> Mediterranean Sea -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
- Climates: Subtropical
- Continents: Europe, Asia
- Countries: Bulgaria
The Blatnitsa is a river in southern Bulgaria, a left tributary of the river Sazliyka with a length of 54 km.
The river takes its source at an altitude of 266 m from the Kapaklia spring, located in the easternmost reaches of the Sredna Gora mountain range, some 1 km southeast of the village of Staro Selo. Throughout its whole course the Blatnitsa flows through the Upper Thracian Plain in a shallow valley. It initially flows south, at the village of Konyovo it turns in direction west-southwest until the town of Nova Zagora, when it takes a turn to the south-southwest until its confluence with the Sazliyka at an altitude of 108 m in the southwestern neighbourhoods of the town of Radnevo.
Its drainage basin covers a territory of 656 km2.
