Key facts
- Location
- Savoie , France
- Primary inflows
- Leysse , Tillet, Sierroz
- Primary outflows
- Canal de Savières , Rhône
- Catchment area
- 560 km (220 mi )
- Basin countries
- France
- Max length
- 18 km (11 mi)
- Max width
- 3.5 km (2.2 mi)
- Surface area
- 44.5 km (17.2 mi )
- Average depth
- 85 m (279 ft)
- Max depth
- 145 m (476 ft)
- Water volume
- 3,600 × 10 ^ m (2,900,000 acre⋅ft)
- Residence time
- 8 years
- Surface elevation
- 231.5 m (760 ft)
- Settlements
- Aix-les-Bains , Le Bourget-du-Lac , Brison-Saint-Innocent , Conjux
- Official name
- Lac du Bourget - Marais de Chautagne
- Designated
- 2 February 2003
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- biosphere reserve
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Savoie
- Area
- 44.5
- Elevation
- 2315
- Image
- Lac du Bourget 2.jpg
- Width
- 3.5
- Length
- 18
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- outflows
- Canal de Savières
- Commons category
- Lac du Bourget
- vertical depth
- 145
- mountain range
- Jura Mountains
- volume as quantity
- 3600
- watershed area
- 588
- basin country
- France
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lac du Bourget ( French: [lak dy buʁʒɛ]; English Lake Bourget), also locally known as Lac d'Aix ([lak d‿ɛ]), is a lake at the southernmost end of the Jura Mountains in the department of Savoie, France. It is the deepest lake located entirely within France, and either the largest or second largest after Lac de Grand-Lieu depending on season.
The largest town on its shore is Aix-les-Bains. Chambéry, the capital of Savoie, lies about 10 km south of the lake. The lake is mainly fed by the river Leysse (and other small rivers), and it drains towards the river Rhône through the Canal de Savières, an artificial channel. It is a Ramsar site. The extinct bezoule was found only in this lake.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lac du Bourget” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.