Tsaratsar
General data
- Name: Tsaratsar
- Water system: Danube
- Water type: River
- Progression: Danube -> Black sea -> Mediterranean Sea -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
- Climates: Subtropical, Temperate, Continental, Mountain
- Continents: Europe
- Countries: Bulgaria
The Tsaratsar (Bulgarian: Царацар) is a river in the Ludogorie region of northeastern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the Danube. Its length is 108 km. The Tsaratsar takes its source under the name Karapancha from a spring at an altitude of 382 m in the northern part of the Samuilovo Heights, within the village of Harsovo. It runs through in a deep canyon-like valley cut in Aptian limestones. The river flow north until the Irihisar hunting area, then northeast until the town of Glavinitsa, west until the Kubrat–Tutrakan road, and finally north again until its mouth. Downstream of the village of Stefan Karadzha it dries up and receives irregular flow. The river flows into the Danube west of Tutrakan at an altitude of 11 m. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 1,062 km2.
