Dospat (river)

The Dospat (Bulgarian: Доспат; Greek: Δεσπάτης, Despatis) is a river in the Western Rhodope Mountains, the most important tributary of the Mesta.

Dospat (Доспат, Δεσπάτης)
Dospat River at its mouth
Dospat River system
Location
CountriesBulgaria and Greece
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationRhodope Mountains
  elevation1,610 m (5,280 ft)
Mouth 
  location
Mesta/Nestos
  coordinates
41°23′25″N 24°5′15″E
  elevation
366 m (1,201 ft)
Length110 km (68 mi)
Basin size633.5 km2 (244.6 sq mi)
Basin features
ProgressionNestosAegean Sea
Tributaries 
  leftSarnena
  rightKochan, Osina

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 79 in Bulgaria[1] and 21 in Greece. For a small distance of 3 km it forms the Greek–Bulgarian border.

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