The Senkovets (Bulgarian: Сенковец) is a river in the Ludogorie region of northeastern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the Danube. Its length is 102km.[1]
The Senkovets takes its source under the name Sazlaka from a spring at an altitude of 448m in the Samuilovo Heights, in the eastern outskirts the village of Visoka Polyana. It flows north through in a deep canyon-like valley cut in Aptian limestones and loess sediments. It dries up downstream of the village of Kitanchevo. Downstream of the village of Bosna the valley widens to over a kilometer, while the slopes remain steep reaching a height of over 50m. The river flows into the Danube in front of the Bulgarian island of Garvan at an altitude of 11m.[1]
Its drainage basin covers a territory of 553km2 or 0.07% of the Danube's total.[1] The river has rain–snow feed and is also fed by karst springs. The water flow is not constant. The average annual discharge at the town of Isperih is 0.166m3/s.[1]
Мичев (Michev), Николай (Nikolay); Михайлов (Mihaylov), Цветко (Tsvetko); Вапцаров (Vaptsarov), Иван (Ivan); Кираджиев (Kiradzhiev), Светлин (Svetlin) (1980). Географски речник на България[Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria] (in Bulgarian). София (Sofia): Наука и култура (Nauka i kultura).
