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A characteristic of Garda is the limited size of the hydrographic basin (2,290 square kilometres or 880 square miles) compared to the lake surface: at a length of 52 kilometres (32 mi) of the lake corresponds the 95 kilometres (59 mi) of the basin, while the respective widths are 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) and 42 kilometres (26 mi).
Lake Garda is the largest of the Italian lakes. In Italy there are more than 1,000 lakes, mostly artificially created by the damming of river valleys. [25] In the north of the country are a number of subalpine moraine-dammed lakes (the Italian Lakes), including the largest in Italy, the Garda (370 km 2 or 143 sq mi). [26]
Lake Region Area Elevation Maximum depth Lake Garda (Lago di Garda) Lombardy, Trentino/South Tyrol, Veneto: 370 km 2 (140 sq mi) 65 m (213 ft) 346 m (1,135 ft) Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore) Lombardy, Piedmont, Ticino (Switzerland) 210 km 2 (81 sq mi) 194 m (636 ft) 372 m (1,220 ft) Lake Como (Lago di Como) Lombardy: 146 km 2 (56 sq mi)
Italy's worst drought in decades has caused the water level of the country's largest lake to fall sharply and reduce in size. At Sirmione, in the southernmost part of Lake Garda, rocky "beaches ...
Largest lake in United Kingdom, largest lake on the island of Ireland 35 Sheksninskoye Russia: 380 150: 36 Garda: Lago di Garda Italy: 370 140: Largest lake in Italy 37 Mjøsa Norway: 365 141: Largest lake in Norway Pyhäselkä Finland: 361 139: Part of Saimaa 38 Ohrid: Охридско Езеро (Ohridsko Ezero), Liqeni i Ohrit North ...
The Isola del Garda is the largest island on the lake, and despite being owned by the Cavazza family, it has been open to the public since 2002.
The group is composed of (from west to east): Lake Orta, Lake Maggiore, Lake Varese, Lake Lugano, Lake Como, Lake Iseo, Lake Idro and Lake Garda. [3] The three largest are all well over 100 km 2; they are: Lake Garda (largest in Italy), Lake Maggiore (largest in southern Switzerland) and Lake Como (deepest in Italy).
Its function is to reduce water levels in the river upstream of the province of Verona by discharging excess water into the lake. [2] The tunnel reduces the risk of flooding in Verona and environs from once every seventy years to once every two centuries. To increase the level of Lake Garda by 0.4 inches (1.0 cm), the tunnel must divert about ...