Lake Nahuel Huapi

The lake Nahuel Huapi is an Argentinian lake of glacial origin located in the Andes cordillera. It extends on the provinces from Río Negro and Neuquén, in the of the same national park name.

Its name, of origin mapuche, means Île of the Jaguars .

Description

It is located at an altitude of approximately 750 meters. It has a surface of 646 km ², that is to say a surface a little higher than that of the Lac Léman in Suisse and France. The length of its banks east of 357 kilometers. The surface of its basin is 2.758 km ². It is famous for its depth (its maximum depth is of 450 meters) and its seven ramifications on the Western side, not far from the border Chile enne.

The important town of San Carlos de Bariloche is built on its south-eastern bank.

Hydrography

It is in relation to other Andean, many lakes in the area, like the lakes Gutiérrez, Moreno, Espejo and Correntoso of which it receives water. Those have all less size than him. It constitutes the beginning of the course of the Río Limay which is its emissary. It has many islands of which most important, inter alia for its tourist activity, is the Isla Victoria , of 31 km ².

Precipitations (rains and snow) fall abundantly on its basin, with a progressive reduction in west in east. Thus, whereas on its western bank, into the station of Puerto Blest close to the Chilean border, it falls from precipitations until 4.000 mm/an, to the east, in the area of San Carlos de Bariloche, it falls nothing any more but 1.500 mm from there annually.

See too

External bonds

  • world Data bank on the lakes

  • Seen satellite of NASA

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