Luda Kamchiya

General data

Name: Luda Kamchiya
Water system: Kamchiya
Water type: River
Progression: Kamchiya -> Black sea -> Mediterranean Sea -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Subtropical, Temperate
Continents: Europe
Countries: Bulgaria

The Luda Kamchiya (“Wild Kamchiya”) is the main tributary of the Kamchiya river system and a key water source in eastern Bulgaria. Reaching 201 km, it is longer than the main stem of the Kamchiya, the Golyama Kamchiya (199 km), and is the tenth longest river in the country.

The Luda Kamchia River originates from a spring at an altitude of 1,109 m on the north foothills of Mount Vratnik in the Sliven Mountain division of the Balkan Mountains. It flows in a deep forested valley, covered with deciduous woods. The valley widens downstream from the village of Gradets and forms large meanders. From the source to the village of Daskotna the Luda Kamchiya flows in general an easterly direction between the Razboyna Ridge, Kotlenska Mountain and Varbishka Mountain to the north and the Sliven, Stidovska and Karnobat mountains to the south, all of them subdivisions of the Balkan Mountains. It then turns northeast, forming the deep Luda Kamchiya Gorge between the Varbishka Mountain to the northwest and the Kamchiyska Mountain to the southeast, exiting the gorge at Tsonevo. The river joins the Golyama Kamchiya at an altitude of 26 m at village of Velichkovo, giving rise to the Kamchiya river proper.

Its drainage basin covers a territory of 1,612 km2

Luda Kamchiya

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