Štrbské pleso
Sign in to savelake in the High Tatra Mountains
Key facts
- Location
- High Tatras
- Type
- moraine-dammed
- Primary inflows
- Underground
- Primary outflows
- Underground
- Basin countries
- Slovakia
- Max length
- 640 m (0.40 mi)
- Max width
- 600 m (0.37 mi)
- Surface area
- 19.76 ha (48.8 acres)
- Max depth
- 20 m (66 ft)
- Water volume
- 1.284 hm (1,041 acre⋅ft)
- Surface elevation
- 1,346 m (4,416 ft)
- Frozen
- more than 155 days/year
- Islands
- Limited rocks
- Settlements
- Štrbské Pleso
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Tatra lakes
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Štrba
- Area
- 0.1976
- Elevation
- 1358
- Image
- STRBSKE PLESO.jpg
- Width
- 0.60
- Length
- 0.64
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- vertical depth
- 20
- Commons category
- Štrbské pleso (lake)
- located in protected area
- Tatra National Park
- Commons gallery
- Strbske Pleso
- mountain range
- High Tatras
- volume as quantity
- 1.284
- basin country
- Slovakia
- different from
- Štrbské Pleso
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Frozen over for 155 days a year
Štrbské pleso (pronunciation, German: Tschirmer See, Polish: Szczyrbskie jezioro, Hungarian: Csorba-tó) is a picturesque mountain lake of glacial origin and a top tourist destination in the High Tatras, Slovakia. It is the second-largest glacial lake on the Slovak side of the High Tatras, after Veľké Hincovo pleso. Maximum depth is 20 metres (66 ft).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Štrbské pleso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.