Burel Valley ( bg, Бурелска котловина, Burelska kotlovina) is a
Sub-Balkan Valley
The Sub-Balkan Valleys ( bg, Подбалкански котловини, Podbalkanski kotlovini) are row of 11 valleys running from the Bulgarian border with Serbia east to the Black Sea. They are separating the Balkan mountains from a chain of o ...
in western
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
.
The valley is limited by the western branches of
Chepan Mountain (part of the
Balkan Mountains
The Balkan mountain range (, , known locally also as Stara planina) is a mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe. The range is conventionally taken to begin at the peak of Vrashka Chuka on the border betw ...
) to the north,
Zavalska Mountain and
Viskyar to the south and
Greben Mountain
Greben (Cyrillic: Гребен, meaning "ridge" or literally "comb") is a mountain in southeastern Serbia, with a small section of the southwestern ridge in Bulgaria.
It is named after a large karst ridge that runs along its spine. Greben rises ne ...
(in
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...
) to the west. To the east, via the watershed between the rivers Slivnitsa and Gaberska and Aldomirovtsi altitudes, the Burel Valley is connected with the
Sofia valley. It covers an area of 172 km
2 and its length from the northwest to the southeast is about 15 km and its width is 7 – 10 km. Its average altitude is 765 m.
References
* Дрончилов, Крум. „Бурел. Антропогеографски изучвания“, София, 1923 г., 250 стр.
Valleys of Bulgaria
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