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Key facts
- Location
- Central Switzerland
- Primary inflows
- Lorze
- Primary outflows
- Lorze
- Catchment area
- 204 km (79 sq mi)
- Basin countries
- Switzerland
- Max length
- 13.8 km (8.6 mi)
- Max width
- 4.7 km (2.9 mi)
- Surface area
- 38.3 km (14.8 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 83.2 m (273 ft)
- Max depth
- 197 m (646 ft)
- Water volume
- 3.2 km (0.77 cu mi)
- Residence time
- 14.7 years
- Surface elevation
- 413 m (1,355 ft)
- Sections sub basins
- Obersee, Untersee
- Settlements
- Zug , Arth , Buonas , Cham , Immensee , Oberwil , Risch , Walchwil , Meierskappel
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Zug
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Zug
- Area
- 24.29
- Elevation
- 413
- Image
- Lac de Zoug.jpg
- Width
- 4.6
- Length
- 13.7
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- Commons category
- Lake Zug
- inflows
- Lorze
- outflows
- Lorze
- watershed area
- 246
- residence time of water
- 14.2
- vertical depth
- 198
- mountain range
- Alps
- basin country
- Switzerland
- drainage basin
- Rhine basin
- volume as quantity
- 3180000000
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Zug (German: Zugersee, Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈtsuːɡərˌzeː]) is a lake in Central Switzerland, situated between Lake Lucerne and Lake Zurich. It stretches for 14 km (8.7 mi) between Arth and the Cham-Zug bay. The Lorze as the main feeder river empties its waters into the lake at its northern extremity, but 1 km (0.6 mi) further west issues from the lake to pursue its course towards the Reuss. Due to this poor feeding, Environmental protection is very important as the lake would suffer long term damage if polluted as the second of the rivers, Rigiaa, feeds only a marginal amount into the lake at its southern end. Already a great part of the fauna in the deep parts of the lake has been lost.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Zug” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.