Suha reka
General data
- Name: Suha reka
- Water system: Danube
- Water type: River
- Progression: Lake Oltina -> Canaraua Fetei -> Danube -> Black sea -> Mediterranean Sea -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
- Climates: Subtropical, Temperate, Continental, Mountain
- Continents: Europe
- Countries: Romania, Bulgaria
The Suha reka is a river in northeastern Bulgaria and southeastern Romania, a right tributary of the Danube. The river flows in the region of Dobruja. Its length is 126 km, of which over 100 km are in Bulgaria. In Romania, where it is called Canaraua Fetei, it flows through the lakes Iortmac and Oltina. Geography The Suha reka takes its source under the name Izvorsko dere from a spring at an altitude of 333 m in the western part of the Frangen Plateau, about a kilometer south of the village of Izgrev in eastern part of the Danubian Plain. It flows north in a wide valley of developed in Barremian, Aptian and Serravallian calcareous limestones. After taking its tributary the Karamandere, its valley becomes canyon-like with steep slopes, at places over 100 m high. North of the village of Karapelit the river bed dries up remains dry until its mouth. At 4 km north of the village of Kranovo the Suha reka enters Romania and flows into the southwestern part of Lake Oltina on the right bank of the Danube. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 2,404 km2.
