Natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina take , which is a little more than 0.12% of the total surface area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Buško Blato is the largest lake, its size being 56.7 km².

Blidinje Blidinje Nature Park () is a nature park in Bosnia and Herzegovina, established on 30 April 1995. It is situated at the Blidinje plateau, in the heart of Dinaric Alps, between major mountains of the range, Čvrsnica, Čabulja and Vran, with ...

lake is the largest natural mountain lake in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with surface area varying between , and Buško Blato lake with its size of is the biggest artificial accumulation in Bosnia and Herzegovina; this lake was made from accumulation of water from the Buško Blato marshland, earlier natural

slough Slough () is a town and unparished area in the unitary authority of the same name in Berkshire, England, bordering west London. It lies in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4 ...

and

morass Morass may refer to: *Marsh, a wetland * Morass (set theory), an infinite combinatorial structure *The Morass, former name of Inundation, Gibraltar * Palais Morass, a historic building in Heidelberg, Germany, which houses the Kurpfälzisches Museu ...

system. The total size of all lakes is 1/10 as large as the world average. Because of this, natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not economically important. All the natural lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina are younger than 9000 years, unlike the other European lakes. This was concluded after the explorations of absolute age of the lake silt. It was written in older literature that the mountain lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina were made because of glacial movements, and the lower altitude lakes of river flows in combination with

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, but many other facts were unattended. In the mountain parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina animal husbandry had a crucial impact on lakes. Every ranch had its own lake which served as a cattle watering-place. If there were no natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, then the artificial lakes were made, for example

Jugovo Lake Jugovo Lake ( sr, Југово jезеро, Jugovo jezero), also known as Borilovačko Lake ( sr, Бориловачко jезеро, Borilovačko jezero) is a lake of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the municipality of ...

at Zelengora mountain. Unlike the mountain lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Plivsko Lake was made of a natural chemical precipitate of carbonate minerals and forming travertine sediment in the process. The subsistence of these lakes is highly threatened by urbanisation, which began in the 1960s. Hutovo Blato was made in the valley of the Neretva river and its existence depends on the energy and Land improvement, meliorative attempts in the underflow of Neretva river. Ichthyology, Ichthyological research of natural lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina began in 1924 and that research determined good natural and biological opportunities for the fish farming.

List of lakes

}) , Natural , Zelengora , - , Trebinjsko Lake , Artificial , Trebinje , - , Tribistovo Lake , Artificial , Posušje , - , Turjača Lake , Natural , Kupres , - , Uloško Lake (a.k.a. Crvanjsko Lake) , Natural , Ulog , - , Vareš Lake , * Artificial/Natural , Vareš , - , Velež Lake , , Velež , - , Veliki Lug , * Artificial/Natural , Fojnica , - , Veliko Lake , Natural , Treskavica , - , Veliko Plivsko Lake , * Natural/Artificial , Jajce , - , Vidara Lake , Artificial , Gradačac , - , Vijenac Lake , * Natural/Artificial , Banovići , - , Višegradsko Lake , , Višegrad , - , Vrtliško Lake , * Artificial/Natural , Kakanj , - , Lake Vrutak, Vrutak Lake , Artificial , Hutovo , - , Zanasovići Lake , * Artificial/Natural , Bugojno , - , Žabar Lake , Natural , Pelagicevo , - , Zvorničko Lake , Artificial , Zvornik , - , Ždrimačko Lake , , Gornji Vakuf , - , Župica Lake , , * * Artificial/Natural - ''Abandoned surface mineshaft subsequently flooded with underground wells;'' * * Natural/Artificial - ''Of natural origin with a subsequent works on regulating the quantity of water and/or increasing depth and/or arranging the environment.''

References

External links

Bistro BiH - Anglers web portal of Bosnia and Herzegovina
{{Europe topic, List of lakes of Lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina, * Lists of lakes by country, Bosnia and Herzegovina Lists of landforms of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lakes

List of lakes

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