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The valley spans a territory of 120 km. It reaches a maximum length of 36 km from west to east; its width varies between 3 and 8 km. The average altitude is 750 m. Zlatitsa–Pirdop Valley is inclined in southern direction. In its middle rise two small heights, Gusenets (834 m)
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in the valley is the biggest facility for smelting and refining of copper in
Southeastern Europe and a leading European exporter of cathode copper. In the village of Mirkovo there is a copper processing mill, linked to the Elatsite mine via a 6.5 km underground rubber-belt conveyor line beneath
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period. From the north it is bounded by the Sub-Balkan fault. Intra–basin depressions and sills, expressed morphologically on the terrain, were formed along transverse faults with a north–south direction. A powerful deluvial-proluvial plume was formed at the foothills of the Balkan
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The economy is well developed. The municipalities in the
Zlatitsa–Pirdop Valley are among the richest in Bulgaria due to copper and gold related industries — mining and non-ferrous metallurgy. Along the northern slopes of the valley are located two important mines, the underground
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valley's northern slopes on the Balkan
Mountains are formed by Paleozoic and Upper Cretaceous rocks and are steep and deforested, while the southern slopes on Sredna Gora are mainly formed by granite and are covered with beech forests.
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The valley is served by several roads of the national network, as well as local roads. From west to east, between the villages of Bunovo and Anton passes a 44.4 km stretch of the first class
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and its right tributaries the
Bunovska, the Mirkovska, the Vozdol, the Mavdzharina, etc. On the course of the Topolnitsa in the eastern reaches of the valley is located the
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In addition, the valley supports agriculture, the main crops being rye, potatoes, apples, etc. Significant areas are covered with meadows and pastures.
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with an annual precipitation of about 600 mm with a summer maximum. The soils are deluvial-proluvial and brown forest.
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and Vesela Mogila, which divide it two parts — the western hilly
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mountain range to the south and southwest. To the west the
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The valley is enclosed between the Etropole and Zlatitsa–Teteven divisions of the
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in direction west–east. It is named after the two towns that lie within,
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