Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

is home to five large lakes. The largest of these is Gazivoda Lake which if found in the north-western part of Kosovo in the municipality of Zubin Potok

Zubin Potok

Zubin Potok is a town and municipality in the Kosovska Mitrovica district of northern Kosovo. It is a part of North Kosovo, a region with an ethnic Serb majority that functions largely autonomously from the remainder of the ethnic-Albanian-majority Kosovo...

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These are five of the largest lakes in Kosovo:

	Lake Lake A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...	Area Area Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...  (km²)	Altit. Altitude Altitude or height is defined based on the context in which it is used . As a general definition, altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object. The reference datum also often varies according to the context...  (m)	Depth (m)	(Million m³)	Type	Characteristics Property Property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation...
1.	Gazivoda Lake Gazivoda Lake Gazivoda Lake is an artificial lake in North Kosovo, Serbia. It is the largest lake in Kosovo. Gazivoda Lake has an area of , of which belong to Kosovo and belong to Central Serbia. The lake is formed by the damming of the Ibar River, which flows into the lake.-Notes and...	9.2	693	105	380	artificial	industrial reservoir (Ibar River Ibar River The Ibar is a river that flows through eastern Montenegro and Serbia, with a total length of . The river begins in the Hajla mountain, eastern Montenegro, passes through Kosovo and flows into the West Morava river, Central Serbia, near Kraljevo.... )
2.	Radonjićko Lake	5.96			113	artificial	industrial reservoir (Sosnica)
3.	Batlava Lake	3.27	600	35	40	artificial	industrial reservoir (Batlava)
4.	Badovac Lake Badovac Lake Badovac Lake or Badovc Lake is a lake in Kosovo. It is located south-east of the capital city of Pristina in the Goljak mountains and in the Kosovo Plain. It provides Pristina and the surrounding towns with water. In the summer, the lake is used for water activities. Badovac Lake is fed by the...	2.57		29	26	artificial	industrial reservoir (Gračanka)
5..	Fierza Lake Fierza Lake The Fierza Reservoir is a reservoir in Albania and Kosovo . The Drin River and parts of the White Drin and Black Drin also runs through the reservoir. The size of the lake is 73 km², of which 2.16 km² belong to Kosovo. It is 70 km long and has a depth of 128 m...	2.16	295	128		artificial	hydroelectric reservoir (Drin River Drin River The Drin is the longest river in Albania with a total length of . It has two distributaries, one going directly into the Adriatic Sea, the other one into the Bojana River .- Origin :... )

• Gazivoda Lake is shared between Kosovo and Central Serbia
  Central Serbia
  Central Serbia , also referred to as Serbia proper , was the region of Serbia from 1945 to 2009. It included central parts of Serbia outside of the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. The region of Central Serbia was not an administrative division of Serbia as such; it was under the...
  
  . The total area of the lake is 11.9km², while Central Serbia has less than one third of it (2.7km²).
• Fierza Lake is shared between Kosovo and Albania
  Albania
  Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
  
  . The total area of the lake is 73km², while Kosovo has only 2.16km²of it.

Other lakes

Other, smaller lakes are to be found in Kosovo as well. These three lakes are located in the west and are all fed by tributaries of the South Morava:

• Prilepnica Lake
• Livoc Lake
• Robovac Lake

Many smaller beautiful lakes are found on the mountains (Prokletije

Prokletije

Prokletije or Albanian Alps is a mountain range in the Balkans that extends from northern Albania, to southwestern Serbia and eastern Montenegro. Its highest point, Jezercë in Albania at , is the tallest peak in the entire Dinaric Alps...

 and Šar Mountains). Lićenat Lake and Small Lićenat Lake are found on Lićenat Mountain and Heart's Lake

Heart's Lake

Zemra Lake is a mountain lake in Kosovo, located from the Albanian border. The lake is found in the Prokletije near the high peak of Gusan. Zemra Lake resembles Đeravica Lake in shape. It has a maximum length of and a maximum width of . Many smaller lakes are found around this lake.-Notes and...

 and Đeravica Lake are found near the peak of Đeravica.