Žuvintas Lake
Sign in to saveLake Žuvintas is a shallow lake in Alytus district, central Lithuania. Area of Žuvintas Lake is 965 ha. It is the shallowest lake in Lithuania with the greatest depth 2.2 m and average only 0.6 m. It is a paradise for water birds, but also faces danger of becoming a swamp.
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- Lake.name
- Lake Žuvintas
- Lake.image
- Žuvintas1.JPG
- Lake.caption
- Žuvintas from Aleknonys village
- Lake.location
- Alytus district
- Lake.outflow
- Dovinė River
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- Lithuania
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- Lithuania
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Lithuania
- Located in
- Alytus District Municipality
- Area
- 9.65
- Elevation
- 86.8
- Image
- Zuvintas 2022a.jpg
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- inflows
- Dovinė
- outflows
- Dovinė
- heritage designation
- Ramsar site
- basin country
- Lithuania
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- Žuvintas Lake
- different from
- Žuvintas
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Lake Žuvintas is a shallow lake in Alytus district, central Lithuania. Area of Žuvintas Lake is 965 ha. It is the shallowest lake in Lithuania with the greatest depth 2.2 m and average only 0.6 m. It is a paradise for water birds, but also faces danger of becoming a swamp.
Lake Žuvintas is found in Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve, Lithuania's oldest nature protection area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Žuvintas Lake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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