River
Kamchiya
244 km from source to mouth · Bulgaria.
BulgariaFlows into Black Sea4th longest in Bulgaria
In numbers
Length
244km
Average flow
32m³/s
Basin
5,358km²
Drop
393m
from 391 m to -2 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
244 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 391 m
- 0 kmKotel6,421 people
- 84 kmKamchiya7.3 km²
- 177 kmTsonevo Reservoir12 km²
- 183 kmGolyama Kamchiatributary
- 183 kmLuda Kamchiyatributary
- 244 kmBlack Seaat -2 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Bulgaria
At the mouth it carries 32 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 79 seconds. It drops from 391 m to -2 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,358 km², about the size of TT. 247,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 89% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- KotelLargest city on its banks · 6,421 people
- Burgas Airport (BOJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 94 km from the cityCar hire at BOJ airport (Burgas)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Kamchiya, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 14 m³/s in the lowest month to 67 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Kamchiya: the basin in numbers
5,372 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 247,000people live in the basin
- 46/km²people per km²
- 321maverage altitude of the basin
- 628mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.6°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
- 0.8%covered by lakes
- 0.9km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 45% Forest
- 32% Cropland
- 9% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Kamchiya: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
- 1Boat ramps
- 1Marinas
- 1River beachesKamchia
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Kamchiya in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Kamchiyakm 597.3km²
- Tsonevo Reservoirkm 12412km²
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Luda Kamchiya, Golyama Kamchia
Nearby
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Turkey112 km5.9 m³/s116 km awayDâmbovița RiverRomania286 km19 m³/s174 km awayIalomița RiverRomania414 km70 m³/s187 km awayDanubeRomania2,850 km5,400 m³/s286 km awayYantraBulgaria286 km37 m³/s200 km awayTundzhaTurkey283 km180 m³/s188 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1461510) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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