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The Pirin Mountains are a range in south-western Bulgaria, about 80 km long, with their highest peak, Vihren, at 2,914 m. Pirin is dotted with more than a hundred glacial lakes, and most of the range is Pirin National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The lakes here include Popovo Lake, the largest and deepest in Pirin, the Banderitsa lakes, Tevno Lake, Muratovo Lake below Vihren, and the Vlahini lakes.

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Bulgaria · Pirin · Southwestern Bulgaria

Popovo Lake

Popovo Lake is a glacial lake in the northern part of the Pirin mountains in south-western Bulgaria. It lies at the bottom of the Popovski cirque, among the peaks Sivria, Dzhano, Kralev Dvor, Momin Dvor and Dzhengal, and it is…

0.12 square kilometresarea
2,233.5 metreselevation
29.5 metresmax. depth
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Photo: Dido3 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Bulgaria · Pirin · Southwestern Bulgaria

Tevno Lake

Glacial · natural

0.05 square kilometresarea
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Photo: Dido3 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Bulgaria · Pirin · Southwestern Bulgaria

Tevno Lake

Glacial · natural

0.05 square kilometresarea
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Bulgaria · Pirin · Southwestern Bulgaria

Okoto (Pirin)

Glacial · natural

0 square kilometresarea
2,026 metreselevation
5.4 metresmax. depth
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