Tazha (river)
The Tazha ( bg, Тъжа) is a river in southern Bulgaria, a left tributary of the river Tundzha of the Maritsa drainage, with a length of 26 km. Its upper course falls within the Dzhendema nature reserve of the Central Balkan National Park. Geography The Tazha takes its source at an altitude of 1,726 m in the Kalofer division of the Balkan Mountains, at 1.4 km south of the summit of Maragidik (1,889 m). In its first four kilometers the river flows eastwards and then bends south in a densely forested deep, at places canyon–like, valley with steep slopes. Northwest of the village of Tazha it leaves the mountain range, forms a large alluvial fan, turns southeast and enters the Kazanlak Valley. It flows into the Tundzha at an altitude of 440 m some 2.3 km southeast of the village of Tarnicheni. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 116 km2 or 1.38% of the Tundzha's total. The river has two main right tributaries, the Dalboka reka and the A ...
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