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Bouchet lake (or Lake of Bouchet; French: ''Lac du Bouchet'') is located in
Haute-Loire,
France
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, near
Le Puy-en-Velay, in the
Devès massif. It is about 1.6 km (one mile) north of the village of
Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas
Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas (; oc, Lo Bochet de Sant Nicolàs) is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.
Personalities
The author Robert Louis Stevenson stayed at an inn in the village on 22 September 1878, having failed t ...
. It is situated within the territories of the communes of
Cayres and Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas.
Bouchet is a
crater lake formed from an old volcano, and thus roughly circular. It is a little more than half a mile from rim to rim and surrounded by woodlands. It is at an altitude of 1,208 m (3,963 feet).
External links
Lake of Bouchet picture.
Bouchet
Landforms of Haute-Loire
Bouchet
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