{"id":1226,"date":"2012-04-05T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2012-04-25T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T08:42:46","slug":"trchkan-waterfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Trchkan Waterfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1226 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/trchkan-waterfall-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Trchkan-waterfall-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/trchkan-waterfall-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Trchkan-waterfall-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/trchkan-waterfall-2-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Trchkan-waterfall-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/trchkan-waterfall-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Trchkan-waterfall-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/trchkan-waterfall-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Trchkan-waterfall-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/trchkan-waterfall-armenia\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Trchkan-waterfall-armenia-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Highest Waterfall of Armenia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the natural beauties of Armenia, Trchkan waterfall is situated on the border between Shirak and Lori regions at 33 km distance from Gyumri, cultural capital of Armenia. The highest waterfall of Armenia, beautiful Trchkan of 23 meters high rushes down on Chichkhan river, the left rivulet of Pambak river, which starting to stream from the north-eastern slopes of the mountain range of Shirak (2250 meters) flows to the east. According to the old tradition the name of the waterfall is connected with the \u201ccrazy adventures\u201d of Chichkhan river that flows in the wide ravine. As the villagers tell the river Chichkhan is rich in trout\u00a0who flow upstream of the river in the season of reproduction.<!--more--><br \/>\nOne day the villagers notice the fish swimming upstream of the river and jumping over the waterfall of more than 20 meters high. And after that incident the beautiful waterfall is called \u201cTrchkan\u201d which in Armenian means \u201cjumping\u201d. Trchkan is not only the highest waterfall of Armenia but also the most abounding in water, for which it is often called \u201cthe Armenian Niagara\u201d. The\u00a0territory of the waterfall is also rich in many endemic species of birds and plants which can be seen very seldom\u00a0and are registered in the Read Book.<br \/>\nThe Armenian beauty \u2013 Trchkan waterfall is registered in the list of miraculous monuments of nature since 2008 and in 2011 the waterfall was defined as the special protected area.\u00a0Now many of the Armenian travel agencies offer to visitors of our country interesting tours and excursions to Trchkan waterfall. During the tours you can get acquainted with the graceful corners of our wonderful nature and explore various unique monuments which are spread throughout the whole territory of Armenia. You can also see miraculous monuments of nature and admire their beauty, the one of which is Trchkan waterfall. So, very interesting tours are organized by Barev Armenia touroperator that you can find in the our website.<br \/>\nAnd how beautiful is the waterfall in winter and spring months when the frosty winter has not yet given up its place to warm weather. Have you ever seen a frozen waterfall\u2026 Imagine the beauty of the marvelous Trchkan when it is frozen. It is not in vain that the waterfall was entitled to the name \u201cIcy Queen\u201d.<br \/>\nHowever, it does not matter in what season you will visit to see this wonderful part of the Armenian nature, you will always live unforgettable moments of your life and no doubt you will have many-many beautiful memories to take from Armenia.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Trchkan Waterfall\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Highest Waterfall of Armenia One of the natural beauties of Armenia, Trchkan waterfall is situated on the border between Shirak and Lori regions at 33 km distance from Gyumri, cultural capital of Armenia. The highest waterfall of Armenia, beautiful Trchkan of 23 meters high rushes down on Chichkhan river, the left rivulet of Pambak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-of-armenia","category-armenian-tourist-sights","tag-trchkan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trchkan Waterfall &#8226; Travel Armenia Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trchkan Waterfall &#8226; Travel Armenia Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Highest Waterfall of Armenia One of the natural beauties of Armenia, Trchkan waterfall is situated on the border between Shirak and Lori regions at 33 km distance from Gyumri, cultural capital of Armenia. The highest waterfall of Armenia, beautiful Trchkan of 23 meters high rushes down on Chichkhan river, the left rivulet of Pambak [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Travel Armenia Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-04-05T14:42:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-04-25T08:42:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Trchkan-waterfall-150x150.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Barev Armenia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Barev Armenia\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Barev Armenia\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#\/schema\/person\/d9bd9f923ee1ab1f142f77f30d57af49\"},\"headline\":\"Trchkan Waterfall\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-04-05T14:42:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-04-25T08:42:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/\"},\"wordCount\":427,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"Trchkan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Nature\",\"Sights\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/\",\"name\":\"Trchkan Waterfall &#8226; Travel Armenia Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-04-05T14:42:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-04-25T08:42:46+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#\/schema\/person\/d9bd9f923ee1ab1f142f77f30d57af49\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Trchkan Waterfall\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/\",\"name\":\"Travel Armenia Blog\",\"description\":\"Barev Armenia&#039;s travel blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#\/schema\/person\/d9bd9f923ee1ab1f142f77f30d57af49\",\"name\":\"Barev Armenia\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/efdf6738fbf49f4e9de7009c54d4bc5af8dc62fedfa4c8e4fdfda77c98ce7761?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/efdf6738fbf49f4e9de7009c54d4bc5af8dc62fedfa4c8e4fdfda77c98ce7761?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Barev Armenia\"},\"description\":\"Barev Armenia Tours is Yerevan based incoming tour operator. We provide a wide range of tourism related services in Armenia and Artsakh (NKR) such as group and individual package tours, hotels, apartments, car rentals, restaurant bookings and more. To travel to Armenia you only need to know the password \u2013 Barev, for the rest will care Barev Armenia. Contact us - (+37477 520710, info@barevarmenia.com, BarevArmenia.com)\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/barevarmenia.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/author\/barevshef\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Trchkan Waterfall &#8226; Travel Armenia Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Trchkan Waterfall &#8226; Travel Armenia Blog","og_description":"The Highest Waterfall of Armenia One of the natural beauties of Armenia, Trchkan waterfall is situated on the border between Shirak and Lori regions at 33 km distance from Gyumri, cultural capital of Armenia. The highest waterfall of Armenia, beautiful Trchkan of 23 meters high rushes down on Chichkhan river, the left rivulet of Pambak [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/","og_site_name":"Travel Armenia Blog","article_published_time":"2012-04-05T14:42:19+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-04-25T08:42:46+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Trchkan-waterfall-150x150.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Barev Armenia","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Barev Armenia","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/"},"author":{"name":"Barev Armenia","@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#\/schema\/person\/d9bd9f923ee1ab1f142f77f30d57af49"},"headline":"Trchkan Waterfall","datePublished":"2012-04-05T14:42:19+00:00","dateModified":"2012-04-25T08:42:46+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/"},"wordCount":427,"commentCount":0,"keywords":["Trchkan"],"articleSection":["Nature","Sights"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/","url":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/","name":"Trchkan Waterfall &#8226; Travel Armenia Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-04-05T14:42:19+00:00","dateModified":"2012-04-25T08:42:46+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#\/schema\/person\/d9bd9f923ee1ab1f142f77f30d57af49"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/trchkan-waterfall\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Trchkan Waterfall"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/","name":"Travel Armenia Blog","description":"Barev Armenia&#039;s travel blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#\/schema\/person\/d9bd9f923ee1ab1f142f77f30d57af49","name":"Barev Armenia","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/efdf6738fbf49f4e9de7009c54d4bc5af8dc62fedfa4c8e4fdfda77c98ce7761?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/efdf6738fbf49f4e9de7009c54d4bc5af8dc62fedfa4c8e4fdfda77c98ce7761?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Barev Armenia"},"description":"Barev Armenia Tours is Yerevan based incoming tour operator. We provide a wide range of tourism related services in Armenia and Artsakh (NKR) such as group and individual package tours, hotels, apartments, car rentals, restaurant bookings and more. To travel to Armenia you only need to know the password \u2013 Barev, for the rest will care Barev Armenia. Contact us - (+37477 520710, info@barevarmenia.com, BarevArmenia.com)","sameAs":["http:\/\/barevarmenia.com"],"url":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/author\/barevshef\/"}]}},"blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"20":{"name":"Nature","link":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/category\/nature-of-armenia\/"},"10":{"name":"Sights","link":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/category\/armenian-tourist-sights\/"}},"tags_names":{"48":{"name":"Trchkan","link":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/tag\/trchkan\/"}},"comments_number":"0","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}