Ovcharitsa

General data

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

The Ovcharitsa is a river in southern Bulgaria, a left tributary of the river Sazliyka. With a length of 72 km, it is the largest tributary of the Sazliyka.

The river takes its source at an altitude of 310 m in the Svetiiliyski Heights east of their highest point Ostrata Vila. Until the village of Zlatari it flows in a deep valley and then enters the Upper Thracian Plain. It flows southwards until flowing into the Ovcharitsa Reservoir. Downstream from the dam, the Ovcharitsa turns southwest and passes through the open-put coal mines of the Maritsa Iztok Complex, where its bed is completely corrected. The river flows into the Sazliyka at an altitude of 94 m southwest of the village of Lyubenovo.

Its drainage basin covers a territory of 656 km2.

Ovcharitsa

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