Lasa also
| Lasa also | ||
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 Tongue of the Laaser Ferners (2013), |
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| location | South Tyrol ( Italy ) | |
| Mountains | Ortler Alps | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 3.5 km | |
| Exposure | North | |
| Altitude range | 3545 m - 2700 m | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 32 '18 " N , 10 ° 39' 36" E | |
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| drainage | Lasa Bach? Etsch | |
The Laaser Ferner is one of the largest glaciers in the Ortler Alps in the Laas Valley (municipality of Laas ) in the South Tyrolean Vinschgau . Due to climate change, it has also been severely affected by glacier retreat since the middle of the 19th century. The peculiarity of this glacier lies in particular in the landscape and climatic types that occur at a short distance from vines and fruit trees in Vinschgau to bare rock and ice in the Lasa high valley.
Its nutrient area is about 3300 m to a maximum of 3400 m on the southeast sides of the Vertainspitze ( 3545 m slm ) and Hohem Angelus ( 3521 m ), and the north sides of the Schildspitze ( 3461 m ) and the Middle ( 3462 m ) and Outer Pederspitze ( 3406 m ). These peaks form a basin open to the east, which the flat upper glacier floor fills. The glacier is around 1.5 km wide in the upper part and around 3.5 km long to the end of its tongue at around 2700 m . It is located entirely in the Stilfserjoch National Park .
In the 19th century the Lasa Ferner reached down to the valley floor at an altitude of 1788 m .
The melt water the Laas Ferners and the water of adjacent streams is to just over 1800 m taken in the Laas valley and together with the through a tunnel from the Martelltal over directed water from the Zufrittsee ( Lago di Gioveretto ) first the storage plant Laas and then the running power plant Kastelbell to Energy generation supplied.
Individual evidence
- ^ Julius Payer : The central Ortler Alps , Gotha 1872, Google Books .
- ↑ Laas power plant at the Tecneum technology museum
- ↑ Kastelbell power station at the Tecneum Museum of Technology
map
- Casa Editrice Tabacco, carta topografica 1: 25.000, sheet 08, Ortles-Cevedale / Ortler area
