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State Geme Breeding Station " Rakitovo" is the West Phodopes, on the nothern mountainside of the "Syutka" massif and of about 20,000 ha. It is 95 km from Kroumovo Airport near Plovdiv and about - 133 km from Sofia Airport. The landscape is typically Rhodopean - terrain with varing slopes, dence forest, consisting of coniferous species - fir, Scots and Austrian pine, spruce, as well as deciduous stands of beech, oak, maple, hornbeam, lime, sycamore and birch. The altitude varies from 2,186 m on Suitka peak, which is the highest point, to 500 m at the Tsepina railway station.
 The game in the region is numerius - red deer, roe deer, wild boar, capercaillie wolf, fox and bear. Among the best records shot on the territory of Rakitovo are trophies for red deer with a weight of 10.300 kg and wild boar with a tusk length of 27.5 cm. In the numerius mountain rivers there is trout and barbel and hihg-mountain dam lake "Batak" teems with catfish, carp, pearch-pike and goldfish. An additional challenge for fishermen is the winter fishing on ice. |
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