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Lengarica Canyon: what official sources establish.

The name is on AKT’s official list, the entrance belongs to Bënjë — and almost nothing else is documented. This piece respects that boundary.

Kadiu Bridge over the Lengarica and the Bënjë pools
Bënjë, the Lengarica, and Kadiu Bridge.Photo: Malenki · CC BY 3.0

Documentation status

Status
Attraction named by AKT
Entrance
Bënjë baths, along the Lengarica
Dimensions
Not officially documented

What the National Tourism Agency establishes

AKT lists Lengarica Canyon among Përmet’s primary attractions, alongside the Bënja Thermal Springs, City Stone, and Kadiu Bridge. The same document establishes one concrete relationship: the baths lie along the Lengarica River, right at the entrance to the canyon.

So two facts you can quote without hesitation: the canyon carries its name in the official list, and its entrance is where the thermal baths sit.

Terrain details at Bënjë — access, timing, conduct — are on the place profile .

The dimensions missing from the record

Lengths, wall heights, and cave counts circulate across travel blogs, but no official source — neither AKT nor a cited Albanian Wikipedia article — publishes a canyon length, wall heights, or a cave inventory. This piece does not repeat those figures.

The same holds for a riverbed crossing season: no official source defines safe months for walking through the water. Anyone planning to enter the canyon does so on their own responsibility, with fresh local information.

How to read this place

The canyon is part of the same landscape as Bënjë: the same river, the same entrance, the same absence of guaranteed services. A visit is planned as a visit to an unsupervised natural setting — not an attraction with hours and infrastructure.

For the full picture of the area, the article on the Benja thermal baths covers the water, the bridge, and the limits of the data.