| |
| | [No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | It stretches from the north-west to the south-east between the valleys of the rivers Strouma and Mesta. |
 | | In the lower regions xerotherm forests of beech, oak, cerris oak prevail, and with the increase in altitude - pine, durmast and yoke-elm, in the mid- and higher regions - spruce, white fir, beech, fir, in the sub-alpine Karst region - pine-scrub, Siberian juniper, in the alpine - edelweiss, harefoot, avens, violet, turban. |
 | | Numerous rivers rise in these lakes, among which the rivers Vlahinska, Bistritsa of Sandanski, Melnishka, Bistritsa of Pirin (flowing into Strouma River), Glazne, Retizhe, Breznishka (flowing into Mesta River). |
| www.medica.bg /bg/pirin/pirin.html (643 words) |
|