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Lago de Sanabria
Zamora · Castilla y León
Photo: M.Peinado from Alcalá de Henares, España · CC BY 2.5
Lake Sanabria, in Zamora, lies at about 1,000 metres of altitude and is the largest glacial lake on the Iberian Peninsula. It measures 3.47 km², with a length of 3.16 km, a maximum width of 1.5 km and a maximum depth of 53 metres, and it originated in the Würm glaciation. Its main inflow and outflow is the river Tera.
It forms part of the Lago de Sanabria and Sierras Segundera and de Porto natural park (22,365 hectares). There are more than 1,500 plant species and Sphagnum peat bogs, and seven fish species, such as trout.
The monks of San Martín de Castañeda bought it in the year 897, and in 1932 the State declared its waters public domain. A legend tells that the town of Villaverde de Lucerna was flooded after refusing help to a poor man and that its bells are still under the water. Dark, clean water surrounded by mountains and stone villages.
Source of the information: Lago de Sanabria (Wikipedia)
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