Chepinska reka

General data

Name: Chepinska reka
Water system: Maritsa (Evros)
Water type: River
Progression: Maritsa (Evros) -> Aegean Sea -> Mediterranean Sea -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Subtropical
Continents: Europe, Asia
Countries: Bulgaria

The Chepinska reka or Chepino river, is a 83 km-long river in southern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the river Maritsa.

The river takes its source as Ribna reka at an altitude of 1,990 m, southwest of the summit of Malka Syutkya in the Batak Mountain of western Rhodope mountain range. In its uppermost course, it flows in western-southwestern direction. Following the Karatepe locality, the river turns north and flows through a deep forested valley called Chepinska Bistritsa. At the town of Velingrad it enters the Chepino Valley, where the river is joined by its largest tributary, the Matnitsa. It winds around the summit of Lakatina Chuka and continues in a southeastern direction. At the village of Draginovo it enters the scenic Chepino Gorge between the Rhodope ridges of Alabak to the northwest and Karkaria to the southeast. Near the village of Varvara, Chepinska reka enters the Upper Thracian Plain, turns northeast and flows into the Maritsa at an altitude of 221 m north of the village of Kovachevo. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 900 km2

Chepinska reka

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