Dospat (river)

Dospat (Δεσπάτης)
Dospat River at its mouth.
Dospat River system.
Basin
Main source	Rhodope Mountains
Source elevation	1,610 m (5,280 ft)
River mouth	Mesta/Nestos 41°23′25″N 24°5′15″E / 41.39028°N 24.08750°ECoordinates: 41°23′25″N 24°5′15″E / 41.39028°N 24.08750°E
Mouth elevation	366 m (1,201 ft)
Size	633.5 km^2 (244.6 sq mi)
Country	Bulgaria, Greece
Physiognomy
Length	110 km (68 mi)
Tributaries	Left Sarnena River Right Kochan River, Osina River

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 Bulgaria, from the 1643-metre-high Rozov vrah ("Rose Peak") and flows southeast until Dospat Dam, after which it makes a turn 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 89 in Bulgaria and 21 in Greece. For a small distance of 3 km it forms the Greek–Bulgarian border.