Bouchet lake is located in Haute-Loire

Haute-Loire

Haute-Loire is a department in south-central France named after the Loire River.-History:Haute-Loire is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 next to Le Puy-en-Velay

Le Puy-en-Velay

Le Puy-en-Velay is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.Its inhabitants are called Ponots.-History:Le Puy-en-Velay was a major bishopric in medieval France, founded early, though its early history is legendary...

. It is about 1.6 km (one mile) north of the village of Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas

Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas

Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.-See also:* Lac du Bouchet* Communes of the Haute-Loire department...

. It is located on the territory of the communes of Cayres

Cayres

Cayres is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.-See also:* Lac du Bouchet* Communes of the Haute-Loire department...

 and Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas

Bouchet is a crater lake

Crater lake

A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar; less commonly and with lower association to the term a lake may form in an impact crater caused by a meteorite. Sometimes lakes which form inside calderas are called caldera lakes, but often this distinction is not...

formed from an old volcano, and thus roughly circular. It is a little more than half a mile from rim to rim and surrounded by woodlands. It is at an altitude of 1,208 m (3,963 feet).

External links

• Lake of Bouchet, picture.