Byala Reka (Luda Reka tributary)
General data
- Name: Byala Reka (Luda Reka tributary)
- Water system: Maritsa (Evros)
- Water type: River
- Progression: Luda reka -> Maritsa (Evros) -> Aegean Sea -> Mediterranean Sea -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
- Climates: Subtropical
- Continents: Europe
- Countries: Bulgaria
Byala reka is a 70 km-long river in the Rhodope Mountains of southern Bulgaria, the longest tributary of Luda reka, itself a right tributary of the Maritsa.
The Byala reka takes its source at an altitude of 980 m in the Maglenik Ridge of the eastern Rhodope Mountains very close to the Bulgaria–Greece border, some 2.2 km south of the village of Chernichevo. It flows into the Luda reka at an altitude of 52 m at the border between Bulgaria and Greece. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 594 km2.
