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Encyclopedia > Lake Murten

Lake Murten (Lac de Morat, Murtensee) is a lake in the west of Switzerland. It is the smallest of the three lakes in the Jura region, with Lake Biel and Lake Neuchâtel being the other two.


The surface area of the lake is 22.8km². It is located in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud. The main tributary is the river Broye. Water leaves the lake through the Broye Canal (Broyekanal) which leads into Lake Neuchâtel.


The lake - together with Lake Nauchâtel - is important to retain water from the river Aar in times of heavy rainfall in the Alps. This helps protecting densely populated areas, such as around the city of Bern. This can lead to the peculiar situation, that the water in the lake flows backwards.


Lake Murten is 8.2km long and up to 2.8km wide. Its maximal depth is 45m. The volume of the lake is approximately 0.55km³. The total catchment area is 693km². The water remains in the lake for an average 1.6 years.


On its southern shores is located the small town of Murten which gives the lake its name.


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Murten Switzerland (292 words)
Murten is situated between Berne and Lausanne and is the capital of the Lake District of the canton of Fribourg.
Lake of Murten is a smaller lake in between Lake of Biel and Lake of Neuchatel.
Murten is also famous in history for the defeat of Charles the Bold by the Swiss.
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Lake Baikal The Yenisei River basin, Lake Baikal, and the cities of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk Lake Baikal (Russian: О́зеро Байка́л (Ozero Baykal)), a lake in southern Siberia, Russia, between Irkutsk Oblast on the northwest and Buryatia on the southeast, near Irkutsk.
The significant input sources are precipitation onto the lake; runoff carried by streams and channels from the lake's catchment area; groundwater channels and aquifers, and man-made sources from outside the catchment area.
A periglacial lake is one in which part of its margin is formed by an ice sheet, ice cap or glacier, the ice having obstructed the natural drainage of the land.
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