Key facts
- Location
- Hévíz
- Basin countries
- Hungary
- Surface area
- 47,500 m (511,000 sq ft)
- Residence time
- 72 hours
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Hungary
- Located in
- Balatonfüred
- Area
- 0.0475
- Image
- Medicinal Bath Hévíz 01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lake Hévíz
- vertical depth
- 38
- basin country
- Hungary
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Hévíz is located in Hévíz, Hungary, near the western end of Lake Balaton, 8 kilometres (5 mi) from Keszthely.
It is the largest swimmable thermal lake in the world (47,500 square metres (511,286 sq ft) in area), and is the second largest thermal lake in general, second to only the Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand, which is too hot for swimming. The flow of water is very strong and the water in the lake is completely replenished every 72 hours. Its minimum depth is 2 meters, reaching a maximum depth of 38 meters, exactly at the point where the hot thermal water comes out to the surface.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Hévíz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.