Nechinska bara

Nechinska bara
Location
Country	Bulgaria
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Shiroka Planina, Pre-Balkan
• coordinates	43°30′39.96″N 22°51′15.12″E
• elevation	476 m (1,562 ft)
Mouth
• location	Lom
• coordinates	43°42′12.96″N 23°6′1.08″E
• elevation	77 m (253 ft)
Length	30 km (19 mi)
Basin size	222 km2 (86 sq mi)
Basin features
Progression	Lom→ Danube

The Nechinska bara (Bulgarian: Нечинска бара) is a river in northwestern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the Lom, itself a right tributary of the Danube. Its length is 30 km.

The river takes its source under the name Gyurgichka bara at an altitude of 476 m on the northern slopes of the Shiroka Planina division of the Pre-Balkan range, a system of low-lying mountains and hills between the Balkan Mountains and the Danubian Plain. It flows north in a deep forested valley until the Gyurgich Reservoir. Downstream of the village of Gyurgich its turns northeast. The river takes its main tributary the Karachitsa shortly before the crossing of the first class I-102 road Vidin–Montana. It flows into the Lom at an altitude of 77 m near the village of Dondukovo.

Its drainage basin covers a territory of 222 km², or 17.9% of the Lom's total.

The Nechinska bara flows in Montana and Vidin Provinces. There are four settlements along its course, the village of Gyurgich in Ruzhintsi Municipality of Vidin Province, as well as the villages of Bukovets and Smirnenski and the town of Brusartsi in Brusartsi Municipality of Montana Province. Its waters are utilised for irrigation.

References

• Мичев (Michev), Николай (Nikolay); Михайлов (Mihaylov), Цветко (Tsvetko); Вапцаров (Vaptsarov), Иван (Ivan); Кираджиев (Kiradzhiev), Светлин (Svetlin) (1980). Географски речник на България [Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria] (in Bulgarian). София (Sofia): Наука и култура (Nauka i kultura).