Cherven Bryag Municipality


Cherven Bryag Municipality is a municipality in Pleven Province, northwestern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Cherven Bryag. With a population of 30,524, as of December 2009, it is the second largest municipality in the province.
The municipality is located by the right side of the Iskar River, close to the inlet of Zlatna Panega River. It has area of 584 km2.
It borders with Lukovit, Roman, Dolni Dabnik, Iskar, Knezha and Byala Slatina municipalities. The Sofia - Rousse highway and Sofia-Varna railroad pass through municipality.
The municipality has 37 protected areas, including Kuklite rock formations on the lands of Resselets village; Kaleto tectonic ridge on the lands of Reselets village; Skoka waterfall on the lands of Reselets; Haydoushka cave near Deventsi; Sedlarkata Rock Bridge on the lands of Rakita; Neolithic settlements near Telish, Thracian settlements in Chomakovtsi, Roman cites near Resselets and Chomakovtsi.

Settlements

SettlementCyrillicPostal codeStatusPopulation
BresteБресте5992village440
GlavaГлава5985village1,397
GornikГорник5991village1,250
DeventsiДевенци5995village775
KoynareКойнаре5986town4,464
LepitsaЛепица5987village458
RadomirtsiРадомирци5997village1,523
RakitaРакита5998village938
ReseletsРеселец5993village1,061
RuptsiРупци5994village1,237
SuhacheСухаче5988village751
TelishТелиш5990village1,166
Cherven BryagЧервен бряг5980town,
capital		13,856
ChomakovtsiЧомаковци5989village1208
total30,524

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Religion

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: