Lake Alūksne () is located in

Alūksne Municipality Alūksne () is a town on the shores of Lake Alūksne in the Vidzeme region of Latvia near the borders with Estonia and Russia. It is the seat of the Alūksne municipality. Alūksne is the highest elevated Latvian city, located in East Vidzeme ...

Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...

.Database of Latvian lakes
/ref> The city of Alūksne is located by the lake. Lake Aluksne is the 11th biggest lake in Latvia (15.437 km²). At its deepest the lake is 15.2 m deep, but the average depth is 7.1 m. The lake contains twelve different species of fish. There are four islands within Lake Aluksne. The ruins of historic

Alūksne Castle Alūksne Castle (; ; ) is a castle of Teutonic Knights in current Alūksne, in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. History The castle was built in 1342 on the largest of the islands in the Lake Alūksne and called ''Marienburg'' (after Mary, the ...

are on the largest island (known as Castle Island or St. Mary's Island, because the castle was originally called Marienburg, "St. Mary's Castle"). Alūksne River (a tributary of

Pededze The Pededze () is a river in Latvia and Estonia. It has a length of , of which 131 km flow through Latvia. It flows in a generally southern direction. It is a right tributary of the Aiviekste, and the source of the Pededze is Lake Kirikum ...

) flows out of the lake.

References

Website of the lake's manager
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