Photo: Izvora · Public domainThe Kamchia reservoir is a large lake of nearly 10 km² on the Luda Kamchia in the eastern Balkan range, and the main source of drinking water for Burgas and a second source for Varna, the two largest cities on the Bulgarian coast.
How it formed
The rock-fill dam with a clay core was built in 1973. Seven rivers feed the lake: the Luda Kamchia, Kotlenska, Glogova, Neykovska, Icherenska, Medvenska and Sadovska. Below it the river runs through a gorge across the Balkan range, followed by the easternmost of the railways between north and south Bulgaria.
Visit
Swimming
No reliable information
Tips
This is a drinking-water reservoir, so ask locally about access to the shore. Lake Tsonevo, downstream on the same river, is the favourite fishing lake of the area.
Nearby lakes
Show on mapPhoto: Izvora · Public domain
Bulgaria · Thracian Plain
Tsanko Tserkovski Reservoir
Reservoir · artificial
~28 kmaway
146 metreselevation
Photo: Ilonamay · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sources & data
- 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: яз.Камчия (relation 2430259), OpenStreetMap contributors
- Bulgarian Wikipedia: Камчия (язовир), Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia: Kamchiya, Wikimedia Foundation