Skoka waterfall
The Reselets waterfall is a protected landmark in its own right, with its own place in the water landscape of the area, separate from the Rachene and the reservoir.
Status
The official protected-area register lists the natural monument "Skoka waterfall on the Belilkata River" in the locality of Reselets, with code 281 and a registered area of 0.2 hectares. It was declared by Order No. 1635 of 27 May 1976, published in State Gazette issue 50/1976.
The place
Skoka lies in the Belilkata valley and is a separate water and rock feature from the Rachene River, which passes through the village itself. The two places are often mentioned together, but they belong to different parts of the water landscape.
The form
According to the University of Mining and Geology, Skoka is 3 to 4 metres high, the thickness of the limestone bed the water falls over: the Kalenska zoogenic formation, a unit of Santonian age, about 85 million years old and up to 6 metres thick, made of cream biogenic limestones full of the shells of bivalves, gastropods, bryozoans, brachiopods, crinoids and sea urchins from a shallow coastal sea.
Neighbours
The university places the waterfall about a hundred metres below Kupenite, the rock pyramids on the right bank of the river. The official register lists Skoka in the locality of Reselets; the tourism page of Cherven Bryag Municipality lists it near the neighbouring village of Breste. The site follows the register and the university and notes the difference.
The landscape
The University of Mining and Geology lists Skoka waterfall as part of the wider natural landscape around Reselets, together with the geotopes and the Kaleto forest park. The photographs on this page are from the site’s own archive, taken in September 2026: the waterfall with its two streams and the pool, up close at the moss-covered rock, and from the side with the overhang. One licensed photograph shows the view from beneath the overhang behind the falling water.
Access
This site does not maintain trails and offers no visits or guiding. For current visitor information about the area, check the Cherven Bryag Municipality pages.
Photography
Two of the site’s own photographs from September 2026, the water over the moss-covered limestone face and the overhang with the pool below it, and one licensed photograph from beneath the overhang behind the waterfall. The gallery presents the landscape; it is not guidance on access or routes.
