Harmanliyska reka

General data

Name: Harmanliyska 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 Harmanliyska reka is a river in southern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the Maritsa. It is 92 km in length.

The river drains the eastern slopes of the Mechkovets ridge, the northern slopes of the ridges Chukata and Huhla, and large areas of the Haskovo hills, all part of the Eastern Rhodope Mountains.

The river takes its source from the Velichka spring at an altitude of 755 m. It flows in a deep forested valley until the village of Boyan Botevo, where it turns southeast and flows through the Haskovo hills in a narrow shallow valley. Downstream of the village of Malevo the Harmanliyska reka turns in northeastern direction and after Stoykovo it bends eastwards, bypassing the Huhla ridge from the north in a valley with steep slopes on the right bank and oblique slopes on the left one. It forms a 9–10 gorge before reaching the town of Harmanli, where the river flows into the Maritsa at an altitude of 73 m northeast of the town.

Its drainage basin covers a territory of 956 km2.

Harmanliyska reka

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