Slivnitsa Municipality

The terrain of the municipality is flat, hilly and mountainous. About half of its total area lies within the westernmost reaches of the Sofia Valley, where the municipality’s lowest altitude is situated — 565 m. Southeast of the valley the elevation rises first to low hills and then to the ridges of the low lying mountain range Viskyar, where there highest point of the municipality, the summit of Mechi Kamak (1,077 m), is located.^[2]

Slivnitsa Municipality falls within the temperate continental climatic zone with an average temperature of −2.5 °C in January and 18.4 °C in June. Most of its territory is drained by the river Slivnishka reka, a right tributary of the Blato, itself a left tributary of the Iskar of the Danube drainage. In the western parts flows the river Gaberska reka, left tributary of the Nišava. In the north lies the karst Aldomirovtsi Marsh.^[2]

Slivnitsa Municipality is traversed by three roads of the national network with a total length of 48.2 km, including a 13 km section of the Europe motorway (A6) that connects the capital Sofia with the Bulgaria–Serbia border, a 19.6 km stretch of the third class III-811 road, and the first 15.6 km of the third class III-8112 road.^[2][3]

In its southern reaches runs a 14 km section of railway line No. 1 Kalotina–Sofia–Plovdiv–Kapitan Andreevo, and an 11.3 km stretch of No. 12 Aldomirovtsi–Gaber.^[2]

The population is 8,578 as of 2024.^[1]

There are 12 villages and one town in Slivnitsa Municipality:^[2]

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  A harvester near Slivnitsa
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  A landscape of Slivnitsa
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  Aldomirovtsi Marsh
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  A monument in Gurgulyat dedicated to the victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War