Kremenski Lakes

Kremenski Lakes (Bulgarian: Кременски езера) are a lake group in the Pirin mountains, southwestern Bulgaria composed of two larger and two smaller lakes situated in a narrow but salient cirque of the same name.[1] They are surrounded by the peaks Sivriya and Dzhano and the Kremenski elevation which ends with Kremenski peak.[2][3]

  • The Upper Kremen lake is situated at 2,352 m altitude. Its size is 335x270 m which makes an area of 66,1 decares. It is 13,6 m deep and has considerable amount of water estimated to 478,000 m³.
  • The Lower Kremen lake at 2,304 m is the largest in this group of lakes and the second largest in Pirin after the Popovo Lake. Its surface area is 98 decares. It is 27 m deep which makes it third in the mountain. It has an elongated form (500x275 m) and the amount of water is 1,000,000 m³.
The Kremenski lakes seen from the Dzhano peak.
A picture of two of the lakes.

References
  1. "Kremenski lakes - the blue pearls from Pirin Mountain's necklace". Plovdiv-Online. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
  2. "Pirin natural park • Tour4Fun". Tour4Fun. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
  3. Atanassova, Juliana; Stefanova, Ivanka (2003-06-01). "Late-glacial vegetational history of Lake Kremensko-5 in the northern Pirin Mountains, southwestern Bulgaria". Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 12 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1007/s00334-003-0001-z. ISSN 1617-6278.
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