Lac de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho
Reservoir in Pyrénées-Orientales / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lac de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho is a lake in the town of Villeneuve-de-la-Raho in Pyrénées-Orientales, France.
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Lac de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho | |
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Location | Pyrénées-Orientales |
Coordinates | 42.630993°N 2.903633°E / 42.630993; 2.903633 |
Lake type | reservoir |
Primary inflows | canal de Perpignan |
Basin countries | France |
Surface area | 2.01 km2 (0.78 sq mi) |
Max. depth | 14 m (46 ft) |
Water volume | 17.9×10 |
Surface elevation | 150 m (490 ft) |
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The lake lies in a deflation pan. That is a natural, circular, shallow depression caused by the removal of fairly loose, mainly Pliocene, sediment by wind erosion, during very cold, windy phases of the Quaternary period. It is the largest of a number of such deflation pans in this area.[1][2]