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Lake Bohinj

Field	Value
name	Lake Bohinj
image	Wocheiner See.jpg
location	Municipality of Bohinj, Triglav National Park
coords
type	Glacial lake
inflow	Savica
outflow	Sava Bohinjka
catchment	107 km2
basin_countries	Slovenia
length	4.35 km
width	1 km
area	3.18 km2
depth	30 m
max-depth	45 m
volume	99.7 e6m3
residence_time	0.3 to 0.5 years
elevation	526 m
pushpin_map	Slovenia
pushpin_map_alt	Location of a lake in Slovenia.
reference

| max-depth = 45 m Lake Bohinj (), covering 318 ha, is the largest permanent lake in Slovenia. It is located within the Bohinj Valley of the Julian Alps, in the northwestern Upper Carniola region, and part of Triglav National Park.

Geography

Lake Bohinj is 4.2 km long and 1 km at its maximum width. It is a glacial lake dammed by a moraine. The largest of the streams that flow into the lake, the Savica ('little Sava'), is fed from Črno jezero (Black Lake), the lowest-lying lake in the Triglav Lakes Valley. The outflow at the eastern end is the Jezernica creek which merges with the Mostnica to form the Sava Bohinjka, which in turn becomes the larger Sava River at the confluence with the Sava Dolinka. As found out already by Belsazar Hacquet in the 18th century, much more water leaves Lake Bohinj than enters it, which is explained with subterranean sources of water.

The clear waters of the lake are the habitat of brown trout, burbot, European chub, common minnow and Arctic char, eight genera of molluscs, as well as of numerous algae species. It is a popular day trippers' destination for swimming and other water sports. On the shore is a statue of the legendary Goldhorn (Zlatorog) chamois, whose story was perpetuated by the poet Rudolf Baumbach.

Notes

References

"Alpine lakes. Survey between land and water".
(2001). "Biological and Landscape Diversity in Slovenia: An Overview". Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning.
Royal Geographical Society (1856) "Wocheiner-See" ''A Gazetteer of the World: or, Dictionary of geographical knowledge, compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete body of modern geography -- physical, political, statistical, historical, and ethnographical'' A. Fullarton, Edinburgh, Scotland, [https://books.google.com/books?id=KroNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA529 p. 529], [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/20348227 OCLC 20348227]; note that Lake Bohinj was formerly known in English by its German name ''Wocheiner See'', or sometimes ''Lake Wochein''.
Baedeker, Karl (1879) "Terglou: The Valley of the Wocheiner Save" ''The Eastern Alps: Including the Bavarian Highlands, the Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, and Carinthia'' (4th ed.) Dulau and Co., London, [https://archive.org/details/easternalpsincl00baedgoog/page/n473 p. 353], {{OCLC. 4018143

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