Lake Lavarone
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Lago di Lavarone Lavarone lake |
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| View of the lake to the south | ||
| Geographical location | Lavarone plateau, Vicentine Alps | |
| Drain | Leachate → Vallenpach → Rio Centa → Brenta | |
| Places on the shore | Lavarone | |
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 56 '11 " N , 11 ° 15' 10" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 1100 m slm | |
| surface | 5.16 hectares | |
| length | 400 m | |
| width | 250 m | |
| volume | 383,400 m³ | |
| Maximum depth | 17 m | |
| Middle deep | 7.4 | |
The Lago di Lavarone is a mountain lake on the plateau of the same name in the province of Trento . It is located on the southern outskirts of Chiesa, a fraction of the municipality of Lavarone .
Origin and geography
The 400 m long and 250 m wide lake is of Kararsian origin and fills a sinkhole . The water did not accumulate immediately after the sinkhole was formed, as evidenced by some tree trunks still rooted in the lake bed, which were discovered during diving in 1972. By means of the radiocarbon method , the trees could be traced back to 210 BC. To be dated. Only after the sinkhole floor had become impermeable to water could the water slowly accumulate in the following period.
The viewing depth determined with the Secchi disk is 3 m. The lake is fed by several springs lying below the surface of the lake. On the northeast bank is the partly artificially created drain, through which the water flows underground in a karst hole and after about 2.6 km further north comes back to the surface and forms the Vallepach , which in turn into the Rio Centa and the latter into the river Brenta flows.
On the east and south banks, which are overgrown with meadows and grass and where reed plants also occur, there are a few bathing beaches, while the west bank lies directly on the forest-covered slopes of Monte Rust. The swimming lake, which is popular in summer, freezes over in the winter months and is used for ice diving exercises . The lakeshore is made accessible by a loop path.
history
The Lago di Lavarone contributed to the tourist development of the Lavarone plateau. At the end of the 19th century there were already several hotels in the towns of Chiesa and Cappella. One of the illustrious guests was Sigmund Freud , who stopped at the Hotel Du Lac in Chiesa several times before and after the First World War. During his summer stay in 1906, the calm surroundings inspired him to write his work Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensen's "Gradiva" .
In a municipal reform in 1928, the lake , which had previously belonged to the municipality of Folgaria , fell to the municipality of Lavarone. In 1989 the Lavarone Lake was named the cleanest mountain lake in Italy after chemical and bacteriological tests .
Fish fauna
The following fish species can be found in Lago di Lavarone: minnow , common sunfish , goldfish , carp , burbot , Rhodeus sericeus (a species from the genus Rhodeus ), rudd , the rutilus erythrophthalmus (a species from the genus Rutilus ), tench and the barbel .
literature
- Fernando Larcher: La Magnifica Comunità degli altipiani cimbri: il territorio, l'ambiente, la storia. Magnifica Comunità degli altipiani cimbri, Lavis ( digitized version )
- Gino Tomasi: I trecento laghi del Trentino , Artimedia-Temi, Trento 2004 ISBN 978-88-85114-83-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gino Tomasi: I trecento laghi del Trentino p. 390
- ↑ Fernando Larcher: La Magnifica Comunità degli altipiani cimbri: il territorio, l'ambiente, la storia. P. 114
- ↑ Fernando Larcher: La Magnifica Comunità degli altipiani cimbri: il territorio, l'ambiente, la storia. Pp. 141-142
- ↑ Fernando Larcher: La Magnifica Comunità degli altipiani cimbri: il territorio, l'ambiente, la storia p. 22
- ↑ Handbook for the budding sport fisherman of the Autonomous Province of Trento in Italian (PDF; 10.7 MB), accessed on May 29, 2018