Trigrad Gorge
Rhodope
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Photo: Evgeni Dinev from Burgas, Bulgaria · CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
The Trigrad Gorge (Bulgarian: Триградско ждрело) is a canyon of vertical marble rocks in the Rhodope Mountains. It is in Smolyan Province, one of the southernmost provinces of Bulgaria.
The gorge encloses the course of the Trigrad River, which plunges into the Devil's Throat Cave and 530 metres (1,740 ft) further emerges as a large karst spring. It later flows into the River Buynovska.
In places, the cliffs are some 300 meters apart, but in a considerable portion of the gorge, for some 2-3 km, they are only separated by about 100 meters. On the western side of the gorge, the cliffs rise roughly 180 meters, while on the east they are 300-350 meters high. These gargantuan dimensions place the gorge third among all such geological formations in Bulgaria. The road to Trigrad winds along the river that in places pours from the rocks.
Visitor information
- Website
- https://www.trigrad.bg/
- Road
- A section of a narrow, single-lane road runs along the entire length of the gorge, which is the only connection for the villages of Trigrad, Vodni Pad, Zhrebevo and Kesten.
- Coordinates
- 41.61498, 24.37981 Open in Maps
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