River Mesta

• Source of: junction with Rile
• Lenght of river in km: 227
• Difficulty:

  	Part	river km	Difficulty
  upper	Černá Mesta - Yurukovo	227 - 220,4	WW II (II+)
  	Yurukovo - mount Iztoku	220,4 - 200,0	WW II - I
  middle	Iztok - Bukovo	200,0 - 166,6	WW I-II (III)

• Conditions: upper part is navigable only by high water. The best start of paddling is from tributary Cerna Mesta in village Cerna Mesta for upper and middle part - narrow hungus small river WW II, sometimes fallen trees or foot bridges. The river change the name to Mesta from junction with Bila Mesta. Next is more water, sometimes rapids WW III+ and two navigable steps. The drop and difficult is less under Jakoruda up to WW I. From junction with Iztok the river has contaminations as many rivers in Bulgaria. The fast stream is from Iztok with difficult WW I - II in nice wild valley. The 1 km long part is 4 km above village Mesta with difficult WW III, then about WW II. The river is not explores from Goce.
• 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: 85 cm part: Od Iztoku water gauge: Momina kula time (gauge): 20.05. 08:00	140 cm 41.7 m3/s

  Statistika sjízdnosti - úsek Od Iztoku

  Historie úseku

  Měsíc	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
  Rok 2026	31	28	31	30	20
  Rok 2025	2	4	18	30	31	24	0	0	0	4	22	31
  Rok 2024	31	28	31	28	31	22	0	1	3	0	1	18
  Rok 2023	30	28	30	30	30	26	20	1	0	0	18	31
  Rok 2022	30	28	31	30	31	30	16	11	13	0	12	31
  Rok 2021	28	28	27	28	28	27	11	0	0	20	3	30
  Průměr	25	24	28	29	28	26	9	3	3	5	11	28
• Character of river:

  Part	width or character	countryside	type of boat	recommended for	speed of flow
  upper	narrow, shaggy banks, stone		kayak, inflatable canoes with a self-bailing floor	experts
  middle	wild river		open boat	experiences

• The best part:
• Dangerous part:
• Usual put in and take off point:
• Continue on river:
• Access to river: road well to Goce, but next is without access up to border exclusive of one place 15km under Goce.
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