Soteska (; literally, 'gorge') is a village in the

Municipality of Kamnik The Municipality of Kamnik (; sl, Občina Kamnik) is a municipality in northern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Kamnik. Today it is part of the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. It is the 15th-largest municipality by area ...

in the Upper Carniola region of

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

. It lies in a side valley at the point where the Nevljica River exits the Tuhinj Valley through a

gorge A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosion, erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tenden ...

, from which it also gets its name. The main road from Kamnik into the Tuhinj Valley runs through the settlement.

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Soteska on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Kamnik {{Kamnik-geo-stub