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Veleka
the Veleka the Veleka
Origin	İstranca mountain, Turkey
Mouth	Black Sea, at Sinemorets, Bulgaria
Basin countries	Bulgaria, Turkey
Length	147 km
Source elevation	710 m
Basin area	995 km²

The mouth of the Veleka at Sinemorets, Bulgaria

The Veleka (Bulgarian: Велека) is a river in the very southeast of Bulgaria (Burgas Province), as well as the very northeast of European Turkey. It is 147 km long, of which 123 km in Bulgaria and 25 km in Turkey, and takes it sources from a number of Karst springs in the Turkish part of the Strandzha (İstranca) mountain to flow into the Black Sea at the Bulgarian village of Sinemorets.

The river's width near the mouth is from 8 to 10 m and its depth ranges from 2 to 4 m. At its mouth, the Veleka is 50 m wide and 7 to 8 m deep, overflowing shortly before making a turn and pouring into the sea.

The waters of the Veleka are rich in flora and fauna, with more than 30 species of freshwater fish being present, the most frequent one being the chub. Five endangered animal species inhabit the river, as well as important regional plants.

Headstream is the origin of water flow that initiates the subject watercourse. It is the start of the river or stream.

The source of a river or stream may be a lake, a marsh, a spring, glacier, or a collection of headwaters.
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Motto
Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh
Peace at Home, Peace in the World
Anthem
İstiklâl Marşı
The Anthem of Independence
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Sinemorets (Bulgarian: Синеморец; also Sinemorec, Sinemoretz, "place on the blue sea") is a village on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, located in the very southeast of the
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Motto
Съединението прави силата (Bulgarian)
"Suedinenieto pravi silata"
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A drainage basin is a region of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, dam, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean. The drainage basin includes both the streams and rivers that convey the water as well as the land surfaces from
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Motto
Съединението прави силата (Bulgarian)
"Suedinenieto pravi silata"
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Motto
Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh
Peace at Home, Peace in the World
Anthem
İstiklâl Marşı
The Anthem of Independence
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Bulgarian}}}
Official status
Official language of: Bulgaria
European Union
Regulated by: Institute of Bulgarian at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Институт за
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Motto
Съединението прави силата (Bulgarian)
"Suedinenieto pravi silata"
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Burgas Province
Област Бургас

Capital Burgas
Population 457,750 GRAO
Area 7,748 km²
Population density 54 persons/km²
Municipalities 13
License plate province code A
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Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea,
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Motto
Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh
Peace at Home, Peace in the World
Anthem
İstiklâl Marşı
The Anthem of Independence
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1 kilometre =
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0 ft 0 mi

A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer, symbol km
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Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite. These landscapes display distinctive surface features and underground drainages, and in some examples there may be little or no
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Strandzha (Bulgarian: Странджа, also transliterated as Strandja and Stranja; Turkish: Yıldız Dağları or Istranca
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1 metre =
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The metre or meter^[1](symbol: m) is the fundamental unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).
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L. cephalus

Binomial name
Leuciscus cephalus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The European chub (Leuciscus cephalus), sometimes called the Eurasian chub, the chevin, the pollard
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