Dospat (river)

Dospat (Доспат, Δεσπάτης)
Dospat River at its mouth
Dospat River system
Location
Countries	Bulgaria and Greece
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Rhodope Mountains
• elevation	1,610 m (5,280 ft)
Mouth
• location	Mesta/Nestos
• coordinates	41°23′25″N 24°5′15″E
• elevation	366 m (1,201 ft)
Length	110 km (68 mi)
Basin size	633.5 km2 (244.6 sq mi)
Basin features
Progression	Nestos→ Aegean Sea
Tributaries
• left	Sarnena
• right	Kochan, Osina

The Dospat (Bulgarian: Доспат; Greek: Δεσπάτης, Despatis) is a river in the Western Rhodope Mountains, the most important tributary of the Mesta.

It takes its source from the 1643-metre-high Rozov vrah ("Rose Peak") in Bulgaria and flows southeast until Dospat Dam, after which it turns southwest to continue generally to the south and flow into the Mesta as a left tributary near the village Mikrokleisoura on Greek territory just south of the Greek-Bulgarian border.

The Dospat has a drainage basin of 633.5 km². Its length is 110 km, of which 79 km is in Bulgaria and 21 km in Greece. For a small distance of 3 km it forms the Greek–Bulgarian border.