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Lake Geneva is the largest body of water in Switzerland, and greatly exceeds in size all others that are connected with the main valleys of the Alps. It is in the shape of a crescent, with the horns pointing south, the northern shore being 95 km (59 mi) and the southern shore 72 km (45 mi) in length.
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 ...
Rhone Glacier at Gletsch in 1900. Rhone watershed upstream from Lake Geneva. The Rhône rises in the St. Gotthard massif in the Swiss Alps. [1] It is formed by the melting of the Rhône glacier, and flows through the long valley of the same name through the canton of Valais, marking the border with the canton of Vaud in the Chablais region before joining Lake Geneva in the commune of Port ...
The Geneva Lake Environmental Agency and Walworth County Public Health said they'll continue to monitor water conditions. Granular blue-green algae in heavy concentrations can pose health threats ...
The Lemanic Arc [citation needed] (French: Arc lémanique) is the region on the north side of Lake Léman, stretching out from Geneva to Lausanne and Montreux. Its parts are Geneva, La Côte, Lausanne, Lavaux, La Riviera and le Chablais. The cantons of Geneva and Vaud have a collaboration programme named Métropole lémanique. [4]
Both Lake Geneva (581.3 square kilometres (224.4 sq mi)) and Lake Constance (541.1 square kilometres (208.9 sq mi)) are located in the plateau but are shared with other countries. The largest lake totally in Switzerland, Lake Neuchâtel (218.3 square kilometres (84.3 sq mi)), is located in the Swiss Plateau.
Lake Geneva ends in the city of Geneva, where the lake level is controlled by the Le Seujet dam . The average discharge from Lake Geneva is 251 cubic metres per second (8,900 cu ft/s). [8] Below the dam, the Rhône receives the waters of the Arve, fed by the Mont Blanc massif, with a visibly higher sediment load and much lower temperature.
1 m (3 ft) 150 m (490 ft) No La Grande Ile Lake Murten: Haut-Vully: Fribourg: 0.06 430 m (1,411 ft) 1 m (3 ft) 60 m (200 ft) No Grien Aare: Aarau: Aargau: 34 No Grien Rhine: Koblenz: Aargau: 1.9 No Heidseeinseln Lake Heidsee: Vaz/Obervaz: Graubünden: No Ile de la Harpe: Lake Geneva: Rolle: Vaud: 0.237 373 m (1,224 ft) 1 m (3 ft) 70 m (230 ft ...