On Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea coast, Lake Pomorie lies beside the town that shares its name. It is not a conventional freshwater lake but a shallow, hypersaline coastal lagoon, separated from the sea by a narrow sand barrier and connected to it through an artificial channel. The landscape shifts between open water, reeds, salt marsh, dunes and working evaporation pans. Seen from the shore, the calm geometry can look simple; ecologically, it is a sensitive system in which small changes to water levels and salinity matter.
The lagoon is part of the Pomorie Wetland Complex, listed under the Ramsar Convention as site 1229 in 2002. Bulgaria’s protected-area and Natura 2000 records recognize additional conservation designations with their own boundaries and legal purposes. These overlapping labels are not interchangeable: the Ramsar site covers about 922 hectares, while other national records describe different areas. The important point for visitors is that the water, shore, salt pans and adjacent habitats are managed as a conservation landscape, not as an unrestricted recreational beach.
