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Key facts
- Location
- Cantons of Fribourg and Vaud
- Primary inflows
- Broye
- Primary outflows
- Broye canal
- Catchment area
- 693 km (268 sq mi)
- Basin countries
- Switzerland
- Max length
- 8.2 km (5.1 mi)
- Max width
- 2.8 km (1.7 mi)
- Surface area
- 22.8 km (8.8 sq mi)
- Max depth
- 45 m (148 ft)
- Water volume
- 0.55 km (450,000 acre⋅ft)
- Residence time
- 1.6 years
- Surface elevation
- 429 m (1,407 ft)
- Islands
- La Grande Ile (islet)
- Settlements
- Morat / Murten
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Morat or more rarely Lake Murten (French: Lac de Morat [lak də mɔʁa]) is a lake located in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud in the west of Switzerland. It is named after the small bilingual town of Murten/Morat on its southern shore.
It is the smallest of the three lakes in the Seeland or Pays des trois lacs area of the Swiss plateau located at the foot of the first chain of the Jura mountains. The main tributary is the river Broye.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Murten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.