Vit (river)

The Vit (Bulgarian: Вит; Latin: Utus) is a river in northern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the Danube.

[2] The main stem the Beli Vit is 36 km long and takes its source at an altitude of 1,595 m on the western foothills of the summit of Yumruka (1,819 m) at the boundary between the Zlatitsa–Teteven and the Troyan sections of the Balkan Mountains and flows in general direction northwest in a steep forested valley.

[3] The other stem, the 27 km long Cherni Vit, springs at an altitude of 1,980 m about 800 m northwest of the summit of Baba (2,070 m) in the Zlatitsa–Teteven section of the Balkan Mountains and flows north in a deep forested valley.

After the village of Glozhene part of its waters penetrate into karst fissures and feed the largest karst spring in Bulgaria Glava Panega, which is the source of the river Zlatna Panega of the neighbouring Iskar drainage further west.

Downstream of Sadovets the Vit enters the Danubian Plain in a wide and asymmetrical valley, with steeper right slopes.

The importance of the snow feed increases from the north to the south, from the Danubian Plain, via the fore-Balkan to the Balkans Mountains.

Part of them are also diverted for industrial needs, as well as limited electricity generation at the small Lisets Hydro Power Plant.

The Vit at Sadovets by Felix Philipp Kanitz
The upper course at Beli Vit
The Vit in winter at Aglen