Key facts
- Location
- Canton of Lucerne
- Primary inflows
- Gross Aa , Chli Aa (Sempachersee), Meierhofbach, Wilibach, Dorfbach (Sempachersee), Brandbach, Röllbach (Sempachersee), Lipperütibach, and some unnamed
- Primary outflows
- Suhre
- Basin countries
- Switzerland
- Surface area
- 14.5 km (5.6 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 44 m (144 ft)
- Max depth
- 87 m (285 ft)
- Water volume
- 0.66 km (540,000 acre⋅ft)
- Residence time
- 16.9 years
- Surface elevation
- 503.77 m (1,652.8 ft)
- Islands
- Gamma Insel
- Settlements
- Sursee , Sempach
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Sempach
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Lucerne
- Area
- 14.4
- Elevation
- 504
- Image
- Aerial image of Lake Sempach (view from the south).jpg
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- outflows
- Suhre
- Commons category
- Lake Sempach
- vertical depth
- 87
- drainage basin
- Rhine basin
- volume as quantity
- 660
- basin country
- Switzerland
- P8168
- N. B. Willey
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Sempach (German: Sempachersee, Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈzɛmpaxərˌzeː]) is a lake in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Its area is about 14.5 km (5.6 sq mi) and its maximum depth is 87 m (285 ft).
A 50-metre-large (160 ft) island named Gamma Insel is located east of Sursee.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Sempach” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.