Basin size 633.5 km (244.6 sq mi) | Length 110 km | |
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Main source Rhodope Mountains1,610 m (5,280 ft) River mouth Mesta/Nestos366 m (1,201 ft) Tributaries Left:Sarnena RiverRight:Kochan River, Osina River |
The Dospat (Bulgarian: Доспат; Greek: Δεσπάτης, Despatis) is a river in the Western Rhodope Mountains, the most important tributary of the Mesta.
Map of r. Dospat, Bulgaria
It takes its source from Bulgaria, from the 1643-metre-high Rozov vrah ("Rose Peak") and flows southeast until Dospat Dam, after which it makes a turn southwest to continue generally to the south and flow into the Mesta as a left tributary near the village Mikrokleisoura on Greek territory just south of the Greek-Bulgarian border.
The Dospat has a drainage basin of 633.5 km². Its length is 110 km, of which 89 in Bulgaria and 21 in Greece. For a small distance of 3 km it forms the Greek–Bulgarian border.
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