Photo: Bin im Garten · CC BY-SA 3.0A reservoir near the village of Benkovski in Kirkovo municipality, in the foothills of the Eastern Rhodopes and the basin of the Arda.
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Benkovski is about 11 km north-west of Kirkovo and about 30 km south-south-west of Kardzhali. The country around the village is worth exploring for its rocks: the “Mushroom” and “Lion” formations, stone mushrooms on the way to Dobromirtsi, a Thracian rock tomb and the Arkata rock shelter, with Palaeolithic finds. Ask in the village about the way to the shore.
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- Bulgaria's 2022 Water Framework Directive reporting to the EEA: lake (LW) and transitional (TW) water bodies, field cArea, European Environment Agency (WISE WFD), reported by Bulgaria, 2022
- OpenStreetMap: Язовир Бенковски (way 25221101), OpenStreetMap contributors
- Bulgarian Wikipedia: Бенковски (Област Кърджали), Wikimedia Foundation