Mavrovo (, ; or Mavrovo Valley, ), near

Gostivar Gostivar ( ; sq-definite, Gostivari) is a city in North Macedonia, located in the upper Polog valley region. It is the seat of one of the larger municipalities in the country with a population of 59,770, and the town also covers . Gostivar has ...

is a valley region in the northwest of

North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

. It is home to

Mavrovo National Park Mavrovo National Park () is the largest of the four national parks of North Macedonia, within the borders of the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuse. Located in the west of the country, it spreads over an area of about and is characterized by ...

and a winter sports center. Some of the

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

s and smaller hamlets include: Mavrovo, Nikiforovo, Leunovo, and Mavrovi Anovi. This micro region is named Mavrovo after the most populated settlement in the region, the village of Mavrovo. The region's location at Bistra mountain and

Mavrovo Lake Mavrovo Lake () is situated in the Mavrovo region, in the Mavrovo and Rostuša municipality, Gostivar in the Republic of North Macedonia, less than 100 km from Skopje. It is an important tourist destination, being frequented for recreati ...

have helped it grow into a year-round tourist center. Mavrovo is the most popular

ski center A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports. In Europe, most ski resorts are towns or villages in or adjacent to a ski area–a mountainous area with pistes (ski trails) and a ski lift system. In North ...

in North Macedonia, Ski center „Mavrovo“. The

lies at an altitude of 1220 m. It is 12 km long, 3 km wide and covers an area of 13.3 square kilometers. The coast is 24 km long. The deepest measured spot of the lake is 48 m deep.

References

Geography of North Macedonia {{RMacedonia-geo-stub