Chupino (on topographical maps: Chupino Brdo) — the peak of Plachkovica mountain with a height of 1,725 m. The peak rises in the eastern part of the mountain, where there are also the peaks Lisec (1,754 m), Bel Kamen (1,707 m) and Kara Tepe (1,625 m).
In the immediate vicinity southwest of the peak, at an altitude of about 1,400 meters, there are the sources of the Vinicka River. The Macedonian revolutionary Gjorce Petrov in his book Materials after the study of Macedonia from 1896 wrote about the peak of Chupino that it is the main peak of Plachkovica, which rises to the south from the village of Blatec and Vinica in the highest part of the chain, namely where it carries the name Plachkovica. Above here, the wide ridge of the chain rises like a bare rocky and not particularly high sliver, which can be seen from the whole of Kočansko Valley.
The local population and older literature call the peak only Chupino, while in more recent military and cadastral topographical maps the peak is found under the name Chupino Brdo, similar to the peak and branch of Mount Bilino in northeastern Macedonia.
According to the tradition of the locals from Blatec and the villages of Potplackovica and Vinica, the name of the peak Chupino came about after an incident when the local bey wanted to kidnap and take into his palace a very beautiful girl – a “chupa” from Blatec, which at that time was mostly inhabited with a Turkish population. The beautiful chupa, not wanting to be grabbed and taken to the barn, fled to the forests of Mount Plachkovica, where she hid from the Turkish pursuit for several days. Hiding for several days, she reached the very top of the rocky area through the woods, where she died (from hunger or exhaustion), which is why the local population named the peak and the entire surrounding area Chupino in her honor.
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