Key facts
- Lake type
- reservoir
- Primary inflows
- Tisza River , Eger Stream , Laskó Stream
- Primary outflows
- Tisza River
- Basin countries
- Hungary
- Max length
- 27 km (17 mi)
- Surface area
- 127 km (49 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in)
- Max depth
- 17 m (56 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- reservoir
- Country
- Hungary
- Located in
- Heves County
- Area
- 127
- Elevation
- 83
- Image
- Tisza-tó.jpg
- Length
- 27
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Tisza (Hungarian: Tisza-tó), also known as Kisköre Reservoir (Hungarian: Kiskörei-víztározó), is the largest artificial lake in Hungary. It is located at the southeastern edge of Heves county, next to counties Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hajdú-Bihar and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok.
As part of the ongoing Tisza River flood control project, the Tisza Dam was built in 1973. Its filling was finished in the 1990s, resulting in a 127 km lake. The lake is 27 km in length, with an average depth of 1.3 m and a maximum depth of 17 m; it contains 43 km of small islands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Tisza” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.