Lagoa do Caldeirão
| Lagoa do Caldeirão | ||
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| Lagoa do Caldeirão. In the foreground the eastern lake, in the background the western lake. | ||
| Geographical location | Corvo County, Corvo , Azores , Portugal | |
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 42 '44 " N , 31 ° 6' 48" W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | approx. 410 m | |
| surface | 25 ha | |
| volume | 156,000 m³ | |
| Middle deep | 0.6 m | |
Lagoa do Caldeirão (Portuguese for "boiler lake") is the only lake on the Portuguese Azores island of Corvo . It lies at the bottom of the caldera of Monte Gordo and covers about 25 hectares. Its water is mesotrophic .
Strictly speaking, one has to speak of a lake landscape and not of a lake, since two lakes are meant close together, which can be divided into an approx. 9 hectare eastern and an approx. 15-16 hectare western lake. But even in official documents of the regional government of the Azores only one lake is mentioned. In the case of drought, even more partial lakes can form, as the lakes are very shallow and the transition to swampy areas, especially in the western lake, is partially fluid anyway.
After prolonged rain, the lake fills up and the excess water then falls steeply into the sea on the west side of the island.
According to legend, the islands of the lake are a reflection of the Azores.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joao Porteiro, Helena Calado, Margarida Pereira, José Eduardo Ventura, Luz Paramio: PLANEAMENTO BIOFÍSICO E GESTÃO DE ECOSSISTEMAS LACUSTRES. Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada> 2005, p. 5 (PDF 0.5 MB)
- ↑ Joao Porteiro, Helena Calado, Margarida Pereira, José Eduardo Ventura, Luz Paramio: PLANEAMENTO BIOFÍSICO E GESTÃO DE ECOSSISTEMAS LACUSTRES. Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada - Lisbon,> 2005, p. 14 (PDF 0.5 MB)
- ↑ Example 1 (DOC file; 35 kB) and example 2 (DOC file; 41 kB)
- ↑ Caldeirao. azoren-online.com, accessed March 7, 2012 .
- ↑ Michael Bussmann: Azores. 4th edition. Michael Müller Verlag, Erlangen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89953-576-1 , p. 505