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Lac de Moiry is a
reservoir
A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation.
Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...
in the municipality of
Grimentz
Grimentz is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Ayer, Chandolin, Saint Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Annivi ...
,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.
Geography
The lake has a surface area of 1.40 km² and an elevation of 2,249 m. The maximum depth is 120 m.
The dam is 148 m high and was completed in 1958.
See also
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List of lakes of Switzerland
This article contains a sortable table listing all major lakes of Switzerland. The table includes all still water bodies, natural or artificial, that have a surface area of at least , regardless of water volume, maximum depth or other metric. Th ...
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List of mountain lakes of Switzerland
This is a list of high-altitude lakes in Switzerland. It includes all significant lakes, natural or artificial, with an area over 4 hectares and a height over 800 metres above sea level. This height approximately corresponds to the transiti ...
External links
Cycling profile to Lac de Moiry
Moiry Dam
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Lac de Moiry is a reservoir in the municipality of Grimentz, Switzerland. Geography
The lake has a surface area of 1.40 km² and an elevation of 2,249 m. The maximum depth is 120 m.
The dam is 148 m high and was completed in 195 ...
Moiry
Moiry
Moiry
References
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