Vidbol
The 883rd longest river in the world
The Vidbol (Bulgarian) is a river in northwestern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the Danube. Its length is 62 km. The river takes its source under the name Dzhonovets at an altitude of about 1,000 m, some 300 m northeast of the summit of Babin Nos (1, 103 m) in the northwestern part of the Balkan Mountains. It is situated in the western Danubian Plain. The river flows in northeastern direction in a forested valley until the village of Rakovitsa and then continues eastwards to Gara Makresh. In this section the Vidbol takes several of its most significant tributaries. From Gara Makresh the river bends north and runs through a deep canyon-like valley. At the village of Sinagovtsi it turns east, enters the Vidin Plain and flows into the Danube at an altitude of 29 m, some 2 km east of the town of Dunavtsi. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 330 km2 and is situated between the basins of the rivers Voynishka reka to the north, the Archar to the south and southeast, and the Timok along the Babin Nos ridge to the west. The river has predominantly rain feed with high water in April–June and low water in August–October. It partially dries out in summer. The average annual discharge at Dunavtsi is 0.8 m3/s. The Vidbol flows entirely in Vidin Province. There are seven settlements along its course, the villages of Rakovitsa, Tsar Shishmanovo, Makresh, Valchek, Sratsimirovo and
Flows through: Bulgaria.
River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.