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__NOTOC__ Rotelsee (also Rotelschsee) is a lake near Simplon Pass in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. The water of the lake powers a small turbine in the monastery Simplon Hospice. The distance from the lake to the monastery is 220m and the difference of altitude is 30m.

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__NOTOC__ Rotelsee (also Rotelschsee) is a lake near Simplon Pass in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. The water of the lake powers a small turbine in the monastery Simplon Hospice. The distance from the lake to the monastery is 220m and the difference of altitude is 30m.

Lake Rotel lies only 300m from the watershed between Po and Rhône The water of Rotelsee flows → Chrummbach → Diveria → Toce → Lake Maggiore → Ticino → Po → Adriatic Sea.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rotelsee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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