Etropole Municipality
Etropole Municipality is a municipality in Sofia Province, western central Bulgaria. Covering a territory of 371.7 km2, it is the seventh largest of the 22 municipalities in the province and takes 5.25% of its total area.
Geography
The relief of the municipality is mostly mountainous and hilly. To the north lies the hilly fore-Balkan, a mountainous chain straddling north of and in parallel with the Balkan Mountains. To the south rise the northern slopes of the main ridge of the Balkan Mountains that include the highest point of Etropole Municipality, the summit of Sveshtiplaz. In the southern reaches is the northern half of the Zlatitsa Pass that crosses the mountains, leading to the Zlatitsa–Pirdop Valley.Most of the municipality is drained by the river Malki Iskar, a right and also largest tributary of the Iskar of the Danube drainage.