Lake Bohinj
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| Location | Bohinj municipality, Triglav National Park |
| Coordinates | 46°16′N 13°48′E / 46.267°N 13.8°ECoordinates: 46°16′N 13°48′E / 46.267°N 13.8°E |
| Primary inflows | Savica River |
| Primary outflows | Sava Bohinjka |
| Catchment area | 107 km2 (41 sq mi) |
| Basin countries | Slovenia |
| Max. length | 4.350 km (2.703 mi) |
| Max. width | 1 km (0.62 mi) |
| Surface area | 3.18 km2 (1.23 sq mi) |
| Average depth | 30 m (98 ft) |
| Max. depth | 45 m (148 ft) |
| Water volume | 99,700,000 m3 (80,800 acre·ft) |
| Residence time | 0.3 to 0.5 years [1] |
| Surface elevation | 526 m (1,726 ft) |
| References | [1] |
Lake Bohinj (Slovene: Bohinjsko jezero), covering 318 hectares (790 acres), is the largest permanent lake in Slovenia.[2][notes 1] It is located in the Bohinj municipality in the north-west of the country, and is inside Triglav National Park.
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[edit] Description
Lake Bohinj is 4.2 km long and 1 km at its maximum width.[3] It is a glacial lake dammed by a moraine.
The largest of the streams that flow into the lake, the Savica River ("little Sava"),[4] is fed from Črno jezero (Black Lake), the largest lake in the Triglav Lakes Valley.
The outflow is the Jezernica which merges with the Mostnica to form the Sava Bohinjka (which in turn merges with Sava Dolinka to become the Sava).
The area is associated[clarification needed] with the legendary "Goldhorn (Zlatorog)", a white chamois with golden horns. A statue of the creature stands beside the lake.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Lake Cerknica, an intermittent lake, is larger than Lake Bohinj during its flood seasons, but disappears entirely during dry seasons.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Lake Bohinj in Alpine lakes. Survey between land and waterPDF (52.1 MB) , page 43
- ^ Hlad, Branka. Skoberne, Peter, ed. (2001). "Characteristics of Biological and Landscape Diversity in Slovenia". Biological and Landscape Diversity in Slovenia: An Overview. Ljubljana: Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning. p. 13. ISBN 961-6324-17-9. http://www.sycp.si/Portals/0/Files/filebroker.aspx@id=6237.pdf.
- ^ Royal Geographical Society (1856) "Wocheiner-See" A Gazetteer of the World: or, Dictionary of geographical knowledge, compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete body of modern geography -- physical, political, statistical, historical, and ethnographical A. Fullarton, Edinburgh, Scotland, p. 529, OCLC 20348227; note that Lake Bohinj was formerly known in English by its Austrian name of the Wocheiner See, or sometimes Lake Wocheiner
- ^ Baedeker, Karl (1879) "Terglou: The Valley of the Wocheiner Save" The Eastern Alps: Including the Bavarian Highlands, the Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, and Carinthia (4th ed.) Dulau and Co., London, p. 353, OCLC 4018143
[edit] External links
- Lake Bohinj web cam
- Lake Bohinj 1920x1080 photos
Media related to Lake Bohinj at Wikimedia Commons
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