Atanasovsko Lake

The Atanasovsko Lake is very salty coastal lake, divided into two smaller ones by the road Burgas - Varna. The north lake was announced a natural reserve in 1980. The south one is a buffer zone. The two parts of the Atanasovsko Lake have been used as salt-cellars since 1906. The lake is surrounded by smaller water areas, and an irrigation canal system as well, overgrown with marsh vegetation. The sweet water from the catchment basin is gathering in a belt channel is lead to the sea. In the buffer of the reserve average 40,000 tones of sea-salt is extracted. Through good maintenance of the ecological conditions in the reserve the biological variety increase and therefore the salt extraction increases as well.Other natural resources are the healing mud and lye. Usually the visits at the lake are made at the West Embankment.

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