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Debar Lake ( mk, Дебарско Езеро , translit=Debarsko Ezero; sq, Liqeni i Dibrës) is an artificial lake in the western portion of 
File:Shpilje Hydro Power Plant.jpg, View of the lake from near the dam, during the algal bloom (2008)
File:Debarsko ezero.jpg, Debar and the lake (with dam at lower right), seen from the west.
File:Debar Lake 2013 (4).JPG, View towards Debar
File:Debar Lake 2013 (3).JPG, Sparse growth on the shore of the lake
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 Socialist Feder ...
near the town of Debar after which it is named. A dam at Špilje blocks the Black Drin, the second longest river in the country.
Lake Debar has a surface area of and is thus among the largest lakes in North Macedonia. It is deep and sits at an altitude of 580 Metres above the Adriatic
Metres above the Adriatic ( it, Metri sopra l'Adriatico, german: Meter über Adria, Serbo-Croatian: ''Metara iznad Jadrana'') is the vertical datum used in Austria, in the former Yugoslavian states of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serb ...
. It was created between 1966 and 1968, after the existing dam at Špilje was raised to .
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