The Kamenitsa (Bulgarian: Каменица) or Kamenka (Каменка) is a 49 km-long river in northern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the river Vit, itself a right tributary of the Danube.[1] It is the largest tributary of the Vit.
The Kamenitsa takes its source at an altitude of 600 m, on the southwestern foothills of the Lovech Heights of the fore-Balkan, west of the village of Sokolovo. It flows west in a narrow forested valley until the confluence with the Sopotska reka, the river then turns northwest and the valley widens. Downstream of the town of Ugarchin it forms a picturesque gorge and heads north. Upstream of the village of Bezhanovo the river enters another gorge, takes its largest tributary the Katunetska reka, forms a third gorge and flows into the Vit at an altitude of 136 m some 1.4 km northwest of Bezhanovo.[1]
Its drainage basin covers a territory of 498 km2 or 15.4% of the Vit's total.[1]
The Kamenitsa has rain, snow and karst spring feed with high water in March–June and low water in July–October. The average annual discharge at Bezhanovo is 1.9 m3/s.[1]
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