Lake Cavedine

Lago di Cavedine Cavedine lake
Cavedine lake with the Marocche di Dro and the Monte Brento
Geographical location	Valle dei Laghi, Lake Garda mountains
Tributaries	Rimone Nuovo
Drain	Rimone Vecchio → Sarca → Lake Garda
Location close to the shore	Cavedine
Data
Coordinates	46 ° 0 '3 "  N , 10 ° 57' 2"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 0 '3 "  N , 10 ° 57' 2"  E
Altitude above sea level	241  m slm
surface	1.01 km²
length	2.5 km
width	600 m
volume	24,492,000 m³
Maximum depth	50.4 m
Middle deep	24.25 m

The Lago di Cavedine is a lake in Valle dei Laghi in Trentino , Italy . It is located about 15 kilometers north of Lake Garda in the territory of the municipalities of Cavedine and Dro at an altitude of 241 meters above sea level.

The Brento Casale group rises to the west , the Monte Bondone group to the east . The Cavedinesee forms the northern limit of the landslide of the Marocche di Dro . The west bank is natural, partly steep and densely overgrown, while Strada provinciale No. 214 leads past the east bank and the bank is developed for tourists.

The climate is still Mediterranean and influenced by the nearby Lake Garda, so that the lake does not freeze over in winter. The regularly occurring winds at the lake are also characteristic, which is why the area is also known as Val del Vent (German Valley of the Wind ). The lake is therefore also known to windsurfers.

The Mediterranean climate also influences the flora found on the lake, even if alpine plants are to be found. In addition to olive trees , holm oaks and laurel, there are various conifer and deciduous tree species on its banks, such as the beech .

The north bank is bordered by an intensively agriculturally used area, which is characterized in particular by fruit and wine growing and extends from the north bank of Lake Cavedine to Lake Toblin in the north .

The inlet and outlet from Lago di Cavedine are also located on the north bank. The tributary, the Rimone Nuovo, also forms the outflow from the two lakes Toblino and Massenza, which are about 11 kilometers to the north. The outflow is formed by the Rimone Vecchio, which is only a few kilometers long and flows into the Sarca River south of Pietramurata.

The water of the Lago di Cavedine is used to generate electricity, which is why the water is relatively cold and the lake is only partially suitable as a bathing lake. The water is cloudy and the depth of view determined with the Secchi disk is 2.85 meters.

Emergence

The lake was created by the Marocche landslide, which detached itself from Monte Brento in several time intervals from the orographic right side of the valley. The oldest demolitions can be dated to the time around 2950 to 2600 BC, the most recent between 400 and 200 BC. It can be assumed that the Massenza, Tobliner and Cavedinesee lakes once formed a single continuous lake area that silted up over time.

Fish fauna

The following fish species can be found in Lago di Cavedine: whitefish , brown trout , perch , pike , Squalius squalus (a species of the chub genus that occurs in the northern Italian lakes ), carp and tench .

Power generation

The water of Lake Cavedine has been used to generate electricity since the beginning of the 20th century. For this purpose, water from the lakes of Massenza is fed via the expanded Rimone Nuovo, which is itself fed by the water from Lake Molveno to generate electricity , and Toblino is fed into Lake Cavedine, which serves as a collecting basin for two hydropower plants . At the south-western end of the lake, the water is channeled underground through the Marocche to the Fies hydroelectric power station north of Dro , which was built between 1906 and 1909. The Fies hydropower plant was replaced in the early 1960s by the larger power plant near Torbole , even if electricity is still generated in Fies, albeit to a limited extent. For the new power plant, the water is taken from the east bank of the Cavedinesee and fed through a 13,759 meter long and 5.90 meter wide tunnel to above Torbole, before it is built through a 257 meter long pipeline to the Sarca north of Torbole Power plant crashes.

Others

In during the Risorgimento playing novella Senso the Italian writer Camillo Boito , 1954 by Luchino Visconti filmed , is the Lago di Cavedine a brief mention.

literature

• Aldo Gorfer: Le Valli del Trentino. Trentino Occidentale , Manfrini, Calliano 1975.
• Gino Tomasi: I trecento laghi del Trentino , Artimedia-Temi, Trento 2004 ISBN 88-85114-83-0

Web links

Commons : Lago di Cavedine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gino Tomasi: I trecento Laghi del Trentino S. 261
2. ^ Studio geomorfologico sulle “Marocche” di Dro (Trentino occidentale) . M.Bassetti. Studi Trent. Sci. Nat., Acta Geol., 72 (1995): 5-30. Quoted in: Evoluzione geomorfologia della Bassa Valle dell Adige dall ultimo massimo glaciale: sintesi delle conoscenze e riferimenti ad aree limitrofe (PDF; 4.9 MB) accessed on August 17, 2017. Michele Bassetti, Andrea Borsato. Studi Trent. Sci. Nat., Acta Geol., 82 (2005). P. 36 f.
3. ↑ Information on Lago di Cavedine from the Basso Sarca sport fishing association in Italian , accessed on August 16, 2017.
4. ↑ On the history of the Fies hydropower plant in Italian , accessed on August 16, 2017.
5. ↑ On the history of the Torbole hydropower plant with sketches and historical photographs in Italian (PDF; 24.3 MB), accessed on August 16, 2017