River Struma

• Source of: Vitoše near Sofie
• Lenght of river in km: 295
• Difficulty:

  	Part	river km	Difficulty
  upper	Pernik - Krupnik	295 - 160	ZW
  middle	Krupnik - border part of Bulgaria and Greece	160 - 105	WW II-IV

• Conditions: Upper part has a dam with drink water. The part from Kjustendil to Krupnik is not interesting - lowland with difficult up to WW I with fast stream. The difficult is increasing from two motorway bridges - high flow, WW III, waves and stoppers. When you will see the concrete block in middle of river (on the right side in tunnel), stop right and go to scout next 200 m - by high water level up to WW V. Next 1 km nice WW III up to pub, then WW II. The difficult is increasing from junction with Vlachinské Bistrice up to Kresna - 2 km WW III. Best take off is at bridge under Kresna. Nice part for rafting. River has many interesting tributaries.
• When, who, how long, type of boat:
  The limits are defined almost for canoe. For kayaks can limit a few cm less, for rafts higher.

  Part	when	Water gauge	Topically hydro.bg	Actual water level
  upper	in spring or after rain
  middle	all year	minimum: 35 cm part: od Simitli water gauge: Кресненско time (gauge): 20.05. 08:00

  Statistika sjízdnosti - úsek od Simitli

  Historie úseku

  Měsíc	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
  Rok 2026	31	28	31	20	18
  Rok 2025	28	28	30	30	30	23	0	2	0	10	28	30
  Rok 2024	30	28	31	28	31	29	7	1	1	3	8	25
  Rok 2023	27	21	31	30	31	26	24	7	0	0	23	30
  Rok 2022	31	27	31	29	31	30	15	12	22	17	13	31
  Rok 2021	31	28	30	27	30	27	23	2	0	22	15	24
  Průměr	30	27	31	27	28	27	14	5	5	10	17	28
• Character of river:

  Part	width or character	countryside	type of boat	recommended for	speed of flow
  upper			open boat	beginners
  middle			close boat, kayak, raft	experts

• The best part: Krupnik - Kresna
• Dangerous part: cataract in front of tunnel
• Usual put in and take off point:
• Continue on river: Gradevská reka, Vlachinská Bistrica
• Access to river: very well up to Gora Ograzdem, next border part
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