Batak Reservoir
Batak Reservoir is located in the Rhodope Mountains of southern Bulgaria and is among the largest in the country. It was constructed to provide electricity generation and irrigation as a major part of the Batak Hydropower Cascade.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir in Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Yazovir Batak”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Batak and Rakitovo.
Batak
Town
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Batak is a town in Pazardzhik Province, southern Bulgaria, not far from the town of Peshtera. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Batak Municipality. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 3,498. Batak is situated 4 km southeast of Batak Reservoir.
Rakitovo
Town
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Rakitovo is a town in the Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria. As of 2005 the population was 8,952. It is located in the northern part of the Rhodopi mountains at 12 km to the east of Velingrad and 7 km to the southwest of the Batak Reservoir. Rakitovo is situated 9 km west of Batak Reservoir.
Kostandovo
Town
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Kostandovo is a small town in the Pazardzhik Province, southern Bulgaria. In 2010, it had 4342 inhabitants. It gained its town status in 2005. It is located in the Rhodope Mountains close to the Batak Dam and the town of Rakitovo. Kostandovo is situated 9 km northwest of Batak Reservoir.
Batak Reservoir
- Categories: settlement formation in Bulgaria and body of water
- Location: Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Batak Reservoir” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Yazovir Batak”
- Bulgarian: “Батак”
- Bulgarian: “Яз. Батак”
- Bulgarian: “Язовир Батак”
- Cebuano: “Batak”
- Chinese: “巴塔克水库”
- Chinese: “巴塔克水庫”
- Slovak: “Batak (priehrada)”
- Slovak: “Batak”
- Swedish: “Batak”
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