Official Name: | Ortsevo |
Native Name: | Орцево |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Bulgaria |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Label Position: | Location in Bulgaria |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Bulgaria |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Blagoevgrad Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Belitsa |
Leader Title: | Suffragan Mayor |
Leader Name: | Ibrahim Palev |
Area Total Km2: | 15,146 |
Population As Of: | 15 December 2010 |
Population Note: | GRAO |
Population Total: | 213 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Postal Code: | 2785 |
Area Code: | 074404 |
Coordinates: | 41.9614°N 23.7308°W |
Elevation M: | 1555 |
Ortsevo (Bulgarian: Орцево) is a remote village in the municipality of Belitsa, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. It is located in the western Rhodope Mountains, approximately 23 kilometers east of Belitsa and 87 kilometers southeast of Sofia. As of 2010 it had a population of 213 people.[1] The population is Muslim of Bulgarian origin.
Ortsevo's village square is situated at ca. 1,550 m above sea level and some of the houses lie at ca. 1,640 m. This makes it the highest permanently inhabited village in Bulgaria and all of the Balkans[2] (the slightly higher village of Chamla lies at ca. 1,650 m, but has been abandoned since the 1980s).[3]