Ropotamo

Cormorants on the Ropotamo

The Ropotamo is a river in Bulgaria.

In the southeast of Burgas, Sozopol and Primorsko between, on an area of ​​approximately 100 km ² is the mouth of the river Ropotamo, still a young nature reserve. It used to be the hunting ground of the communist elites and long inaccessible.

The area includes marshes, islands, cliffs, sandy beaches, bays, forests and pastures, is known primarily for its plant and animal wealth. Here grow more than 500 different plant species and habitats of turtles, pelicans, kingfishers, storks, cormorants deer, reptiles and some wild boars and jackals.

Conservation complex Ropotamo

The complex nature Ropotamo is located about 10 km south of Sozopol. It includes the biosphere reserve Ropotamo, which was proclaimed at the mouth of the river of the same; the island Sveti Toma; the nature reserves Alepu, Stomoplo and Arkutino, and the southern end of the Gulf of Burgas to the Cape Maslen nos.