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Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

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February 2004<br />

Fig. 4: 3D model of <strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong> NP – view from the east towards the Rilska<br />

River Valley. Legend - altitude in meters above sea level; green line – park<br />

boundary.<br />

The highest point in <strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong> NP is Riletz Peak (2,713 m). Malyovitsa Peak<br />

(2,729 m) is higher, but it is located on the boundary with <strong>Rila</strong> National <strong>Park</strong>. The<br />

average altitude of terrains within RMNP is 1,750m asl<br />

In this section of <strong>Rila</strong> Mountain is the principal orographic and hydrographic junction<br />

of the entire massif: Kanarata Peak (2,691 m), defining both the Main Balkan<br />

Watershed (between the Aegean and the Black Sea basins), and the watershed<br />

between the two principal drainage areas of the Aegean Basin, those of Belishka and<br />

Rilska Rivers.<br />

Residual relief<br />

The shaping of <strong>Rila</strong> as a solid, high mountain started as early as the Paleozoic, when<br />

the metamorphic rocks were intruded by granites and the formation of the batolite<br />

body as a dome-anticline took place. The latter represents a dome-like<br />

morphostructure shaped by deep peripheral faults, clearly visible in the present-day<br />

relief. The large dome-shaped body has been subjected over time to constant,<br />

spatially differentiated, mostly positive tectonic movements, whereby it has grown in<br />

<strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong> <strong>Nature</strong> <strong>Park</strong><br />

<strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> -Draft<br />

2004 - 2013<br />

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