Golemiya Kazan ( bg, Големия казан) is one of the two cirques that form an area called ''Kazanite'' (the Cauldrons), situated in

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mountain range. ''Kazanite'' are located below the two highest summits

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(2,914 m) to the south and

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(2,908 m) to the north. It is composed of two cirques, ''Malkiya Kazan'' (The Small Cauldron), which is the lower one (2,200 m) and is grassy, and ''Golemiya Kazan'' (The Big Cauldron), situated at 2,400 m and with stony slopes. The size of Golemiya Kazan is 1,200 m by 1,100 m. They were named like that because there is often fog rising from the cirques. Due to the karst in the region there are no lakes or streams in ''Kazanite''. A 450 m-high face of Vihren begins from Golemiya Kazan and at its foot a small glacier called Snezhnika is located, whose size is 80x90 m in summer, with a

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of 41°46′09″ N it is the southernmost glacial mass in EuropeGrunewald, p. 129.. Chamois are abundant in this area.

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* * {{cite book , ref={{harvid, Dushkov, 1972 , title = Пирин. Туристически речник , trans-title = Pirin. Tourist Dictionary , last1 = Душков (Dushkov) , first1 = Добри (Dobri) , year = 1972 , language = Bulgarian , publisher = Наука и култура (Nauka i kultura) , location = София (

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) , isbn = Pirin Geography of Blagoevgrad Province