Blato
General data
- Name: Blato
- Water system: Danube
- Water type: River
- Progression: Iskar -> Danube -> Black sea -> Mediterranean Sea -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
- Climates:
- Continents: Europe
- Countries: Bulgaria
The Blato is a 30 km-long river in western Bulgaria, a left tributary of the river Iskar. The river takes its source from a karst spring at an altitude of 554 m, situated some 1.2 km west of the villages of Opitsvet and Bezden. It flows through the Sofia Valley. The river flows into the Iskar at an altitude of 509 m about 1.1 km east of the Kumaritsa neighbourhood of the town of Novi Iskar. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 774 km2. The Blato has high water in March–June and low water in July–October. The river flows in Sofia and Sofia City Provinces.