Lago del Sambuco

Lago del Sambuco
Lago del Sambuco
Location: Ticino Tributaries: Maggia , various mountain streams Drain: Maggia
Canton Ticino , Switzerland
Coordinates	693 092  /  146 497 coordinates: 46 ° 27 '48 "  N , 8 ° 39' 2"  O ; CH1903:  693,092  /  one hundred forty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-seven
Data on the structure
Lock type:	Arch dam
Construction time:	1956
Height of the barrier structure :	130 m
Height above the river bed :	124 m
Height of the structure crown:	1461  m above sea level M.
Building volume:	775 000  m³
Crown length:	363 m
Operator:	Officine idroelettriche della Maggia SA
Data on the reservoir
Water surface	1.11 km²
Reservoir length	3 km
Storage space	62 000 000  m³
Total storage space :	62 900 000  m³
Catchment area	29.75 km²
Design flood :	139 m³ / s
Detailed map

The Lago del Sambuco (German lake of the elder ) is a reservoir in the Swiss canton of Ticino . It lies at an altitude of 1461  m above sea level. M. above the village of Fusio at the end of the Val Lavizzara , a side valley of the Valle Maggia . The reservoir, which was created in 1956, is dammed by a 130 m high arch dam, measures 110 m at its deepest point, has a capacity of 63 million cubic meters and covers a water surface of 1.11 square kilometers.

source

• Lakes in Switzerland: Natural and storage lakes, Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, 2007 ( Memento from October 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) → Lakes in Switzerland (PDF)

Web links

• Lago del Sambuco on schweizersee.ch
• Lago del Sambuco on hikr.org/dir