Trigrad Gorge
The Trigrad Gorge ( Bulgarian Триградско ждрело [triˈɡradsko 'ʒdrelo]) is a canyon made of vertical marble rock walls in the Rhodope Mountains and is located in the Smoljan district , one of the southernmost districts of Bulgaria . The gorge has been a protected area since 1963.
The river Trigrad flows through the gorge and falls into the Devil's Throat Cave ( Bulgarian Dyavolsko Garlo (пещера Дяволското гърло)) near the village of Gyovren . Five hundred meters downstream, the river emerges again in a large karst spring and later flows into the Buynovska .
The rocks on the western slope of the gorge are up to 180 meters high, the eastern slope up to 350 meters. In the upper part, the gorge is 300 meters wide, but narrows in the northern section of the river to a gorge 100 meters wide. The gorge begins 1.2 kilometers from the village of Trigrad and has a total length of about seven kilometers, of which the actual gorge is about two to three kilometers long.
The Trigrad Gorge is one of the 100 national tourist objects of Bulgaria (No. 88).
See also
Trigrad Gap , a mountain pass on Livingston Island , an archipelago in the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica
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Coordinates: 41 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ N , 24 ° 22 ′ 45 ″ E