Orava (reservoir)

Orava (reservoir)
Orava
Coordinates 49°23′59″N 19°32′44″E / 49.39972°N 19.54556°E / 49.39972; 19.54556Coordinates: 49°23′59″N 19°32′44″E / 49.39972°N 19.54556°E / 49.39972; 19.54556
Lake type reservoir
Primary outflows Orava river
Basin countries Slovakia
Surface area 35.2 km²

Orava is a reservoir in northernmost Slovakia, which is the largest lake in Slovakia (35.2 km²). It has been constructed between 1941 and 1953 as a dam built on the former two sources of the Orava river. Several former villages had to be inundated for this purpose. Probably the best known of them was Slanica, the birthplace of the Slovak intellectual and cleric Anton Bernolák (Antonius Bernolacius). Today, the reservoir is protected by the Horná Orava Protected Landscape Area.



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