Mavrovo Lake ( mk, Мавровско Езеро, translit=Mavrovsko ezero) is situated in the Mavrovo region, in the

Mavrovo and Rostuša municipality Mavrovo and Rostuša ( mk, ) ( tr, Mavrova ve Rostuşa) is a municipality in western North Macedonia. The municipal seat is located in the village of Rostuša. This municipality is part of the Polog Statistical Region. Geography The municipalit ...

of the

Republic of North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...

, less than 100 km from

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; r ...

. It is an important tourist destination, being frequented for recreational activities such as swimming, boating and trout fishing during the summer; a distinctive building in the lake is the half-submerged church of Saint Nicholas. Since 1952 it is part of the

Mavrovo National Park The Mavrovo National Park ( mk, Национален парк Маврово) is the largest of the four national parks of North Macedonia. Located in the west of the country, it spreads over an area of about and is characterized by deep canyons ...

. With its surface of , is one of the most extensive artificial lakes of the country. The lake is surrounded by the

Šar Mountains The Šar Mountains ( Serbian and mk, Шар Планина, Šar Planina, colloquially also ) or Sharr Mountains ( sq, Malet e Sharrit), form a mountain range in the Balkans that extends from Kosovo and the northwest of North Macedonia to nort ...

on the North and the Bistra Mountains on the South, both exceeding heights of 2000 m.

Gallery

File:Lago Mavrovo, Macedonia, 2014-04-17, DD 23.JPG, View of the lake in winter File:Torreón de la presa del lago Mavrovo, Macedonia, 2014-04-17, DD 05.JPG, Watchtower at the dam File:Torreón de la presa del lago Mavrovo, Macedonia del Norte, 2014-04-17, DD 28.jpg, Watchtower at the dam

References

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