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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)).
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 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 ...
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.
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The chief engineer was Henri Ladame from Neuchatel. Work began in 1874 with the digging out of the Broye Canal connecting the lakes of Morat and Neuchatel. The Broye is a Swiss plateau river; it feeds the lake of Murten and flows out of it into the lake of Neuchatel, where it joins the Thielle, flowing out of the latter lake into Lake Biel.