Sushitsa
General data
- Name: Sushitsa
- Water system: Maritsa (Evros)
- Water type: River
- Progression: Yugovska reka -> Chepelare -> Maritsa (Evros) -> Aegean Sea -> Mediterranean Sea -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
- Climates: Subtropical
- Continents: Europe, Asia
- Countries: Bulgaria
The Sushitsa is a 24 km long river in southern Bulgaria, flowing through Smolyan and Plovdiv Provinces.
The river springs at an altitude of 1,425 m at the western foothills of the summit of Sini Vrah in the Dobrostan Ridge of the western Rhodope Mountains and flows into the Yugovska reka at an altitude of 556 m southeast of the village of Yugovo. It drains the northwesternmost slopes of the Prespanski Ridge and the southwestern slopes of the Dobrostan Ridge. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 62 km2.
