[1] The river takes its source under the name Boynishka reka at an altitude of 328 m some 1.2 km northwest of the village of Golemanovo in the northwesternmost part of the Balkan Mountains.

It flows in the western Danubian Plain in direction northeast.

[1] Its drainage basin covers a territory of 137 km2, or 24% of the Topolovets's total.

From its mouth upstream runs a 12 km stretch of the third class III-121 road Inovo–Boynitsa–Kula.

[1] Some 3 km downstream from the river's source is located the Albotin Monastery, a medieval Bulgarian cave sanctuary with fresco fragments dating from the 14th century during the Second Bulgarian Empire.