Key facts
- Location
- Alban Hills
- Coordinates
- 41°45′0″N 12°39′54″E / 41.75000°N 12.66500°E / 41.75000; 12.66500
- Type
- crater lake
- Basin countries
- Italy
- Surface area
- 6 km (2.3 sq mi)
- Max depth
- 170 m (560 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- volcanic crater lake
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Marino
- Area
- 6
- Elevation
- 293
- Image
- Lago Albano • Lake Albano (46805866261).jpg
- Width
- 2.3
- Length
- 3.5
- Perimeter
- 31.5
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- Commons category
- Lake Albano
- basin country
- Italy
- volume as quantity
- 468
- Commons gallery
- Lago Albano
- vertical depth
- 170
- mountain range
- Alban Hills
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Albano (Italian: Lago Albano or Lago di Castel Gandolfo) is a small volcanic crater lake in the Alban Hills of Lazio, at the foot of Monte Cavo, 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Rome. Castel Gandolfo, overlooking the lake, is the site of the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo.
It hosted the canoeing and rowing events of the 1960 Summer Olympic Games that were held in Rome. The lane marking system developed for these events is commonly referred to as the Albano buoy system.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Albano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.