Kremenski Lakes
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Pirin
The Pirin Mountains are a mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria, with Vihren the highest peak, situated at . The range extends about 40 km northwest-southeast, and about 25 km wide. Most of the range is protected in the Pirin National Park...
mountains, southwestern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
composed of two larger and two smaller lakes situated in a narrow but salient cirque of the same name. They are surrounded by the peaks Sivriya and Dzhano and the Kremenski elevation which ends with Kremenski peak.
- The Upper Kremen lake is situated at 2,352 m altitude. Its size is 335x270 m which makes an area of 66,1 decares. It is 13,6 m deep and has considerable amount of water estimated to 478,000 m³.
- The Lower Kremen lake at 2,304 m is the largest in this group of lakes and the second largest in Pirin after the Popovo LakePopovo LakeThe Popovo Lake is the largest of the eleven Popovo Lakes. The lake and its vicinity is among the most popular places for summer tourism in the Pirin National Park...
. Its surface area is 98 decares. It is 27 m deep which makes it third in the mountain. Is has an elongated form (500x275 m) and the amount of water is 1,000,000 m³.