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Lake Neuchatel is situated at the foot of the Jura mountain range, on the Swiss Plateau. Mainly in the French-speaking Swiss Romande , it borders the territory of four cantons: Neuchâtel (86 km 2 (33 sq mi)), Vaud (74 km 2 (29 sq mi)), Fribourg (53 km 2 (20 sq mi)) and Bern (2 km 2 (0.77 sq mi)).
The two most extensive, Lake Geneva and Lake Constance, are amongst the largest in Europe and mark the border of the Swiss Plateau, along with the Alps and the Jura Mountains. The largest wholly Swiss lake is Lake Neuchâtel. The remaining lakes over 100 km 2 (39 sq mi) are Lake Maggiore and Lake Lucerne. In total 103 lakes exist that are more ...
La Tène is a protohistoric archaeological site on the northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland.Dating to the second part of the European Iron Age it is the type site of the La Tène culture, which dates to about 450 BCE to the 1st century BCE and extends from Ireland to Anatolia and from Portugal to Czechia.
The canton is bounded to the west by Lake Neuchâtel, to the west and the south by the canton of Vaud, and to the east by the canton of Bern. The canton includes two enclaves within Vaud and one within the canton of Bern, as well as a large exclave on the lake; it also enclaves the Bernese municipality of Münchenwiler. The area of the canton ...
The river Doubs marks for a part the border with France, set down in a gorge and forming along its path a waterfall, the Saut du Doubs , and lake, the Lac des Brenets. The municipality was the capital of Neuchâtel District , until the district level of administration was eliminated on 1 January 2018.
In the southwest, the Swiss Plateau is confined by Lake Geneva, in the northeast, by Lake Constance and the Rhine. Geologically, the Swiss Plateau is part of a larger basin that extends beyond the border of Switzerland. At its southwestern end, in France, the plateau, in the Genevois, ends at Chambéry where Jura and Alps meet.
Here are a seven more Lake Erie facts about the popular vacation spot. 1. Almost all of Lake Erie's water comes from the other Great Lakes. According to the Ohio Sea Grant College Program, ...
The last great glacier advance in the Alps ended some 10,000 years ago, leaving the large lake now known as Lake Neuchatel. The ice in this region reached some 1,000 m (0.6 mi) in depth and flowed out of the region behind Lake Geneva some 100 km (60 mi) to the South. Today large granite boulders are found scattered in the forests in the region.