Mavrovo ( mk, Маврово ) is a

valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between Hill, hills or Mountain, mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers ...

region in the northwest of the

Republic of North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...

. It is home to

Mavrovo National Park The Mavrovo National Park ( mk, Национален парк Маврово) is the largest of the four national parks of North Macedonia. Located in the west of the country, it spreads over an area of about and is characterized by deep canyons ...

and a winter sports center. Some of the

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

s and smaller hamlets include: Mavrovo,

Nikiforovo Nikiforovo (russian: Никифорово) is a rural locality (a village) in Ukhotskoye Rural Settlement of Kargopolsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The population was 46 as of 2010. Geography Nikiforovo is located 57 km southwest of ...

Leunovo Leunovo ( mk, Леуново) is a village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša, North Macedonia. Demographics In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov Vasil Kanchov ( bg, Васил Кънчов, Vasil Kanchov) (26 July 1862 – 6 F ...

, and

Mavrovi Anovi Mavrovi Anovi ( mk, Маврови Анови) is a village in the Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality of North Macedonia. Its FIPS code was MK64. Demographics According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 167 inhabitants. Ethnic groups ...

. This micro region is named Mavrovo after the most populated settlement in the region, the village of Mavrovo. The region's location at

Bistra mountain The Bistra (, is a massif in North Macedonia. The massif has several summits higher than 2,000 metres, with the highest being Medenica at 2,163 metres above sea level. Limestone erosion on the mountain has created limestone fields. In the lime ...

and the Lake Mavrovo have helped it grow into a year-round tourist center. Mavrovo is the most popular

ski center A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports. In Europe, most ski resorts are towns or villages in or adjacent to a ski area – a mountainous area with pistes (ski trails) and a ski lift system. In Nor ...

in North Macedonia. The

Mavrovo lake Mavrovo Lake ( mk, Мавровско Езеро, translit=Mavrovsko ezero) is situated in the Mavrovo region, in the Mavrovo and Rostuša municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia, less than 100 km from Skopje. It is an important to ...

lies at an altitude of 1220 m. It is 12 km long, 3 km wide and covers an area of 13.3 square kilometers. The coast is 24 km long. The deepest measured spot of the lake is 48 m deep.

References

Geography of North Macedonia {{RMacedonia-geo-stub