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Lake Zirahuén

Field	Value
name	Lake Zirahuén
image	Zirahuen.JPG
caption	Lake Zirahuén
location	Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, Mexico
coordinates
type	endorheic lake
catchment
date-built
date-flooded
length
width
area	970 ha
depth
max-depth	70 m
volume	0.216 km3
shore
elevation	2080 m
temperature_high
temperature_low
pushpin_map	Mexico Michoacán#Mexico
pushpin_map_alt	Location of the lake in Mexico

| date-built = | date-flooded = | max-depth = 70 m Lake Zirahuén is a small endorheic lake in the municipality of Santa Clara del Cobre in Michoacán, Mexico. It is a deep mountain lake with a sandy bottom that is partially covered with mud. It covers an area of 970 ha and has a volume of 0.216 km3.

At times Lake Zirahuén has been part of an open and continuous hydrological system together with Lake Cuitzeo and Lake Pátzcuaro, draining into the Lerma River. Today it is a closed basin like Lakes Cuitzeo and Pátzcuaro, although ecologists consider it a sub-basin of the Lerma-Chapala basin.

The Zirahuén allotica (Allotoca meeki), a Goodeid fish, is endemic to Lake Zirahuén.

References

link. (2011-07-21)
(19 December 2008). "62. PÁTZCUARO Y CUENCAS ENDORRÉICAS CERCANAS". Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad.
"Descripción de la cuenca", "Recuperación Ambiental del Lago de Pátzcuaro". Accessed October 18, 2009. [http://www.recuperapatzcuaro.info/cuenca.htm] {{Webarchive. link. (2009-04-16)
link. (2011-07-21)

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