Laghetto Moesola
| Laghetto Moesola | ||
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| Looking north. At the end of the lake the hospice. | ||
| Geographical location | San Bernardino Pass | |
| Tributaries | Moësa | |
| Drain | Moësa | |
| Location close to the shore | San Bernardino | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 732 978 / 150580 | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 2063 m | |
| length | 315 m | |
| width | 150 m | |
| Maximum depth | 10 m | |
| Middle deep | 5 m | |
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particularities |
Lake at the top of the pass, island with lake |
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The Laghetto Moesola (Laghetto in Italian for "small lake") is a lake at the top of the San Bernardino Pass in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .
geography
The lake lies at the lowest point of the pass crossing in a trough running from north to south between the Marscholhorn in the west and Piz Uccello in the east. It is fed by the Moësa , which rises a little above the lake, and by several nameless streams, the majority of which flow into the lake on the steeper west side. There are one larger and two smaller islands in the lake. The large island is fish-shaped and rises up to around 6 meters from the lake. There is a small lake on top of it. There are numerous other small to very small mountain lakes in the round hump landscape on the pass.
The old pass road runs along its western bank and a hiking trail on the eastern bank. At the north end of the lake there is an inn, at the south end of the lake the Moësa rises .
history
At Laghetto Moesola on March 7, 1799, in snow and cold, a warlike conflict broke out between a French army under General Claude-Jacques Lecourbe , as well as around 100 Austrians and 500 men from the Rheinwalder Landsturm. The French routed the Rhine forests and marched into the valley.
Web links
- Laghetto Moesola on schweizersee.ch