Lake Epecuén

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Lake Epecuén
Villa Epecuen (45) .JPG
Geographical location Buenos Aires Province , Argentina
Tributaries Ameghino Canal
Drain none
Places on the shore Carhué , Villa Epecuén
Data
Coordinates 37 ° 8 ′  S , 62 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 8 ′  S , 62 ° 53 ′  W
Lake Epecuén (Buenos Aires)
Lake Epecuén
surface 160.3 km²

particularities

high saline salt lake

The Lago Epecuen is a salt lake in Argentina . It is located at Villa Epecuén . It has an area of ​​160.3 km².

history

The water of Lake Epecuén has one of the highest salinity values ​​in the world. This led to an upswing in therapeutic tourism . Since the 1930s and 1940s saw very little rainfall, Lago Epecuén was constantly shrinking. In order to be able to maintain bathing operations in Villa Epecuén, the government of the province of Buenos Aires decided to build the 25 km long Ameghino Canal. This collected water from more distant lakes and rivers and channeled it into a system of six large lakes, the last of which was Lago Epecuén. As a result, the salt content in the lake fell, the main reason for the flow of visitors, but that appeared to be the lesser evil compared to the further silting up of the lake. In the 1980s, the amount of precipitation rose sharply again.

On January 29, 2017, 1941 people floated on their backs in the salt water and held hands. The number has been recognized as the Guinness World Record , previously Taiwan held that record with 643 people from 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Catálogo de Lagos y Embalses de la República Argentina (Index of Lakes, Shallow Lakes and Reservoirs): EPECUEN ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Subsecretaría de Recursos Hídricos, Ministry of Interior Argentina @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hidricosargentina.gov.ar
  2. ^ Análisis del agua del Lago Epecuén , Termas de Carhué, Secretaría de Turismo de Adolfo Alsina
  3. ↑ Argentina's Atlantis , spiegel.de
  4. ↑ Lago_Epecuen twitter.com, entries from January 29 and 30, 2017, accessed February 1, 2017. - Confirmadas 1941 personas flotando en el Lago Epecuen
  5. ↑ Argentina: 1,941 people bathe together in salt lake orf.at, February 1, 2017, accessed February 1, 2017.