Baltata, Managed nature reserve in Balchik municipality, Bulgaria

Baltata is a 204.7-hectare managed nature reserve at the mouth of the Batova River, south of Albena. It protects Bulgaria's northernmost longose forest, dominated by field elm and narrow-leaved ash reaching 30–35 m, with a dense understory and lianas that give it a jungle-like appearance.

Baltata was declared a protected area on 20 April 1978 and reclassified as a managed nature reserve on 15 October 1999. Its purpose is to conserve the northernmost longose forest in Bulgaria, located at the mouth of the Batova River.

The name Baltata comes from the local word for a marshy, swampy place, reflecting the river mouth's silted delta. The forest's lianas, especially the bramble-like "skripka", once formed a thorny belt that made it impassable. Today the reserve lies beside the Albena resort, and a wooden footbridge south of the Gergana hotel crosses the river's mouth.

A wooden footbridge crosses the Batova's mouth south of the Gergana hotel, and a wooden observation tower stands nearby, though its condition may limit access. After strong east winds, sandbanks block the river mouth and dredgers reopen it during the bathing season. The reserve lies next to Albena resort, in the Balchik municipality of Dobrich Province.

The reserve's lianas once formed a dense, thorny belt that made the forest impassable; today wild vine, ivy, traveller's joy and birthwort still climb the trees. The Greek tortoise lives here, and 16 fish species are recorded, four of them protected as endangered.