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It is located in the middle of the country in the south part of Tacuarembó Department with a small part of it reaching into the north part of Durazno Department. Rincón del Bonete is an artificial lake formed by a dam on the course of Río Negro. It was built in 1945 and has a surface of about 1,240 square kilometres (480 sq mi).
Lakes. Laguna de Castillos. Laguna Garzón. Laguna José Ignacio. Laguna Negra. Laguna de Rocha [1] Laguna del Sauce [2] Merín Lake [3] Rincón del Bonete Lake.
50 square kilometres (19 sq mi) Laguna del Sauce (Lagoon of the Willow) is a subtropical shallow lake [ 1 ] and the largest water body in the Maldonado Department of Uruguay. It is located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Punta del Este. The lake is the only freshwater ecosystem in the country classified for drinking water as its principal use.
Laguna del Sauce. Categories: Bodies of water of Uruguay. Lakes by country. Lakes of South America by country. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Uruguay(/ˈjʊərəɡwaɪ/ ⓘ[12]YOOR-ə-gwy, Spanish:[uɾuˈɣwaj]ⓘ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay(Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentinato its west and southwest and Brazilto its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Platato the south and the ...
Uruguay is a country in the southeastern region of South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Brazil. It is located in the Southern Hemisphere on the Atlantic seaboard of South America between 53 and 58 west longitude and 30 and 35 south latitude. [1] It is bordered to the west by Argentina, on the north and northeast by ...
Nahuel Huapi Lake (Spanish: Lago Nahuel Huapi) is an Andean lake in the lake region of northern Patagonia between the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén, in Argentina. The lake has a northwest-southeast elongated shape and complex geography with several branches, peninsulas and islands. The city of Bariloche is on the southern shore of the ...
Numerous smaller lakes around the world are at higher elevations, [26] such as the 6,000 square metres (65,000 sq ft) crater lake of Ojos del Salado, which at an elevation of 6,480–6,500 metres (21,260–21,330 ft) is the overall highest lake in the world, and the 280 km 2 (110 sq mi) Lake Puma Yumco, which at an elevation of 5,030 m (16,500 ...