Vihren
Vihren is the highest peak of Bulgaria's Pirin Mountains. Reaching 2,914 metres, it is Bulgaria's second and the Balkans' third highest, after Musala and Mount Olympus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,914 metres
- Description: highest point of Pirin mountain
- Also known as: “El Tepe”, “Vihren (peak)”, and “Vihren peak”
Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Snezhnika and Kutelo.
Snezhnika
Glacier
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Snezhnika is a glacieret in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria, a remnant of the former Vihren Glacier. The glacieret lies at an elevation between 2,425 m and 2,480 m in the deep Golemiya Kazan cirque at the steep northern foot of Vihren, Pirin's highest summit.
Kutelo
Peak
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Kutelo is a summit in the Pirin mountain range, southwestern Bulgaria. With a height of 2,908 m, it is the second highest peak in Pirin after Vihren, and the third one in Bulgaria, behind Musala in Rila and Vihren.
Vihren
- Category: landform
- Location: Bansko, Pirin Macedonia, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Vihren” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Віхрэн”
- Bulgarian: “Vihren”
- Bulgarian: “Вихрен”
- Bulgarian: “връх Вихрен”
- Bulgarian: “Ел тепе”
- Catalan: “Vihren”
- Cebuano: “Vihren”
- Chinese: “維赫倫峰”
- Chinese: “维赫伦峰”
- Czech: “Vichren”
- Czech: “Vihren”
- Dutch: “Vichren”
- Dutch: “Vihren”
- Esperanto: “Viĥren”
- Estonian: “Vihren”
- French: “Vihren”
- French: “Vikhren”
- Georgian: “ვიხრენი”
- German: “Vihren”
- German: “Wichren”
- Greek: “Ανεμοκορφή”
- Greek: “Βίχρεν”
- Italian: “Vihren”
- Japanese: “ヴィフレン山”
- Kazakh: “Vïxren”
- Kazakh: “Вихрен”
- Kazakh: “ۆىيحرەن”
- Latvian: “Vihrens”
- Lithuanian: “Vichrenas”
- Lithuanian: “Vihrenas”
- Lombard: “Vihren”
- Macedonian: “Вихрен”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vihren”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vihren”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Вихрен”
- Norwegian: “Vihren”
- Polish: “Wichren”
- Portuguese: “Vihren”
- Romanian: “Vihren”
- Russian: “Вихрен”
- Slovak: “Vichren”
- Slovak: “Vihren”
- Slovenian: “Vihren”
- Spanish: “Vihren”
- Swedish: “Vichren”
- Turkish: “Vihren”
- Ukrainian: “Вихрен”
- Ukrainian: “Віхрен (гора)”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Tumbata and Bansko.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hvoynati vrah and Tsarna mogila.
Pirin Macedonia: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Blagoevgrad, Pirin National Park, Bansko, and Melnik.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vihren”. Photo: Спасимир, CC BY-SA 4.0.