List of lakes in Bulgaria - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is an incomplete list of lakes in 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...

Image	Lake	Area (km²)	Depth (m)
Limans Liman (landform) Liman is a name for a lake, bay, or estuary formed at the mouth of a river where flow is blocked by a bar of sediments. Liman can be maritime or fluvial .The name is used for such features found along the western and northern coast of the Black Sea, as well as along... and lagoon Lagoon A lagoon is a body of shallow sea water or brackish water separated from the sea by some form of barrier. The EU's habitat directive defines lagoons as "expanses of shallow coastal salt water, of varying salinity or water volume, wholly or partially separated from the sea by sand banks or shingle,... s
	Lake Atanasovsko Lake Atanasovsko Lake Atanasovsko or Lake Atanasovo is a salt coastal lake north of Burgas, Bulgaria, located in direct proximity of the Black Sea. The lake is about 5 km long and divided into two by a strip of sand in the middle...	17	1
	Lake Beloslav Lake Beloslav Lake Beloslav is a liman, which connected by the navigation canal with the Lake Varna. Before the canal was built the lake was freshwater, but not the water if brackish. The rivers Devnya and Provadiyska inflow to the Lake Beloslav. The area of the liman is about 40-10 km2, width 0.5-3.5 km,...	4-10	14
	Lake Burgas Lake Burgas Lake Burgas or Lake Vaya , located near the Black Sea west of the city of Burgas, is the largest natural lake in Bulgaria, with an area of 27.60 km², a length of 9.6 km and a width of 2.5 to 5 km. It is up to 103 feet deep....	27.6	13
	Lake Durankulak	4
	Lake Pomorie Lake Pomorie Lake Pomorie is the northernmost of the coastal Burgas Lakes, located in the immediate proximity of the Black Sea and the Bulgarian town of Pomorie. It has an area of 8.5 km² and has an elongated shape with a length of 6.7 km and width of 1.8-2 km...	8.5	1,4
	Lake Shabla Lake Shabla Lake Shabla is a lagoon in the north-eastern Bulgaria, which separated from the Black Sea by the sandbar. The area of the water body is 0.8 km2, depth 0.4-4 m, salinity 0,4%. The lagoon is located on 3 km east from the town of Shabla.- Links :*...	0.8	4
	Lake Varna Lake Varna Lake Varna is the largest by volume and deepest liman or lake along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, divided from the sea by a 2 km-wide strip of sand and having an area of 17 km², maximal depth 19 m, and a volume of 166 million m³....	17	19
Swamp Swamp A swamp is a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water. A swamp generally has a large number of hammocks, or dry-land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation that tolerates periodical inundation. The two main types of swamp are "true" or swamp... s, marsh Marsh In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland that is subject to frequent or continuous flood. Typically the water is shallow and features grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, other herbaceous plants, and moss.... es and other lakes
	Aldomirovtsi marsh Aldomirovtsi marsh Aldomirovtsi marsh is a marsh in the area of city Slivnitsa, Bulgaria.Located not far from the Serbian border , and 30 km from capital city Sofia....	1.29
	Alepu Alepu -References:*...	1.67
	Arkutino
	Dragoman marsh Dragoman marsh The Dragoman marsh is the biggest natural karst wetland in Bulgaria. It is situated only 35 km north-west from Sofia and covers a valley between the limestone hills Tri Ushi and Chepan....	4
	Lake Rabisha Lake Rabisha Lake Rabisha is the largest inland natural freshwater lake in Bulgaria. It is located in northwestern Bulgaria, between the villages of Rabisha and Tolovitsa in Belogradchik municipality, Vidin Province. The lake is abundant in fish. There are sheatfishes that can reach 300 kilograms of weight...		15
	Smolyan lakes (8 lakes)		4,5
	Srebarna Srebarna Nature Reserve The Srebarna Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in northeastern Bulgaria , near the village of the same name, 18 km west of Silistra and 2 km south of the Danube...	2	3
	Ustren lake	0.15
Glacial lake Glacial lake A glacial lake is a lake with origins in a melted glacier. Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,000 years ago, glaciers began to retreat. A retreating glacier often left behind large deposits of ice in hollows between drumlins or hills. As the ice age ended, these melted to create... s (in Pirin 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... )
	Banderishki Lakes Banderishki Lakes The Banderishki Lakes are a large group of lakes in the Pirin mountains, southwestern Bulgaria. They are situated in the Banderitsa valley and mark the beginning of the Banderitsa river. There are 17 lakes in all from which only 5 have names. They are glacial lakes formed on granite basis with a... (17 lakes)	0.13	12
	Bashliiski Lakes (4 lakes)	0.02	3
	Breznishki Lakes (3 lakes)	0.04
	Chairski Lakes Chairski Lakes The Chairski Lakes are a group of nine glacial lakes in the Pirin mountain, south-western Bulgaria. They are located in a large cirque called Chaira in the valley of the river Sandanska Bistritsa. They are situated between the peaks Mozgovishki and Prevalski Chukar at an altitude between 2,200 and... (9 lakes)	0.09	5,6
	Dautovo Lake
	Kremenski Lakes Kremenski Lakes Kremenski Lakes are a lake group in the Pirin mountains, southwestern Bulgaria 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... (5 lakes)	0.20	27
	Malokamenishki Lakes (20 lakes)
	Popovo Lake Popovo Lake The 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...	0.12	27,5
	Prevalski Lakes (4 lakes)		5,2
	Samodivski Lakes Samodivski Lakes The Samodivski Lakes is a small group of lakes in Pirin, southwestern Bulgaria, part of the larger group of Popovski lakes. They are situated very close to each other in a small cirque to the south west of the Popovo Lake between the peak Dzhengal, Momin Dvor and Kralev Dvor. They are situated at... (3 lakes)	0.06
	Tipitski Lakes Tipitski Lakes The Tipits Lakes are located in northern Pirin. They are situated in the Tipits cirque. The Upper lake has surface area of 17,7 decares and is 2,3 m deep; while the Lower lake has area of 15,9 decares and depth of 9 m. There is also a smaller lake which drys up. The two bigger lakes are not... (2 lakes)	0.02	9
	Valyavishki Lakes Valyavishki Lakes The Valyavishki Lakes is a group of lakes in the northern parts Pirin, southwestern Bulgaria and includes 10 lakes. They are amphitheatrically situated in the cirque of the same name. The lakes are glacial and lie on a granite bed. They are located between 2,300 and 2,475 m. Their shores are steep... (10 lakes)		18
	Vasilashki Lakes Vasilashki Lakes The Vasilashki Lakes are situated in Pirin, Bulgaria in a large cirque between the Todorka and Vasilashki Chukar peaks. The cirque is opened to the east, where it faces the Demyanitsa river in which the water of the lakes pour. This cirque also includes the two lakes Todorini Ochi , whose waters... (12 lakes)	0.16	29
	Vlahini Lakes Vlahini Lakes The Vlahini Lakes is a group of four lakes in Pirin, southwestern Bulgaria situated at 1.5 km to the southwest from Vihren. The group consists of four lakes the highest of which makes 80% of their total area. The lakes are named after the village of Vlahi, located at much lower altitude.*The... (5 lakes)	0.09	13,4
Glacial lake Glacial lake A glacial lake is a lake with origins in a melted glacier. Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,000 years ago, glaciers began to retreat. A retreating glacier often left behind large deposits of ice in hollows between drumlins or hills. As the ice age ended, these melted to create... s (in Rila Rila Rila is a mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria and the highest mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkans, with its highest peak being Musala at 2,925 m... )
	Lake of Purity
	Marichini Lakes (2 lakes)	0.03	11
Seven Rila Lakes Seven Rila Lakes The Seven Rila Lakes are a group of lakes of glacial origin , situated in the northwestern Rila Mountains in Bulgaria. They are the most visited group of lakes in Bulgaria. The lakes are situated between 2,100 and 2,500 metres elevation above sea level.Each lake carries a name associated with its... (7 lakes)
	1. The Eye	0.068	37,5
	2. The Fish Lake	0.035	2,5
	3. The Kidney	0.085	28
	4. The Lower Lake	0.059	11
	5. The Tear	0.007	4,5
	6. The Trefoil	0.026	6,5
	7. The Twin	0.091	27,5
	Urdini Lakes (6 lakes)		7,6
	Vapski Lakes (2 lakes)	0,03

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