Chepelare
Chepelare is the principal town in Chepelare Municipality, part of Smolyan Province in Southern Bulgaria. It is situated in the central part of the Rhodopes, on the banks of Chepelare River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,480 residents
- Description: city in Chepelare municipality, Smolyan oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Chepelari”
- Postal code: 4850
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rodopska iskra 1880 and Rhodope Karst Museum (Chepelare).
Rodopska iskra 1880
Community center
Photo: Izvora, Public domain.
Rodopska iskra 1880 is a community center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bogutevo and Kukuvitsa.
Bogutevo
Village
Bogutevo is a village in South Bulgaria. It is part of Chepelare Municipality in Smolyan Province. The village can be reached via the country road 86 and is situated around 75 km south of Plovdiv and 25 km north of Smolyan. Bogutevo is situated 4½ km northeast of Chepelare.
Kukuvitsa
Village
Photo: Ivankra, Public domain.
Kukuvitsa is a village, which is situated 6 km southwest of Chepelare.
Pamporovo
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Pamporovo is a ski and mountain resort in the Western Rhodope Mountains in southern Bulgaria, not far from Smolyan. Established in the 1930s, it's one of the most famous ski resorts in the country and hosts international winter sports competitions.
Chepelare
- Categories: municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Chepelare, Smolyan, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
41.72566° or 41° 43′ 32″ northLongitude
24.68531° or 24° 41′ 7″ eastPopulation
5,480Elevation
1,162 metres (3,812 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG CPAOpen location code
8GH6PMGP+74OpenStreetMap ID
node 273488861OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Waray—“Chepelare” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “ГР.ЧЕПЕЛАРЕ”
- Bulgarian: “Чепеларе”
- Cebuano: “Chepelare”
- Central Kurdish: “چێپێلارێ”
- Chinese: “切佩拉雷”
- Czech: “Čepelare”
- Dutch: “Chepelare”
- Dutch: “Tsjepelare”
- Estonian: “Čepelare”
- Estonian: “Chepelare”
- Finnish: “Tšepelare”
- French: “Tchepelare”
- French: “Tchépélaré”
- German: “Chepelare”
- German: “Tschepelare”
- Hebrew: “צ’פלארה”
- Interlingua: “Chepelare”
- Irish: “Chepelare”
- Japanese: “チェペラレ”
- Kazakh: “Çepelare”
- Kazakh: “Чепеларе”
- Kazakh: “تشەپەلارە”
- Macedonian: “Чепеларе”
- Persian: “چپلاره”
- Polish: “Czepełare”
- Portuguese: “Čepelare”
- Portuguese: “Chepelare”
- Romanian: “Cepelare”
- Russian: “Чепеларе”
- Serbian: “Čepelare”
- Serbian: “Чепеларе”
- Slovenian: “Čepelare”
- South Azerbaijani: “چپلار”
- Spanish: “Chepelare”
- Swedish: “Tjepelare”
- Tatar: “Чепеларе”
- Turkish: “Çepeleri”
- Turkish: “Çepeli”
- Ukrainian: “Чепеларе”
- Vietnamese: “Chepelare”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chepelare”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Площад Олимпийски and Община Чепеларе.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Chepelare”. Photo: Mihal Orela, CC BY 3.0.