Lake Žuvintas is a shallow
lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...
in
Alytus district, central
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
. Area of Žuvintas Lake is 965 ha. It is the shallowest lake in Lithuania with the greatest depth 2.2 m and average only 0.6 m.
It is a paradise for
water
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birds
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, but also faces danger of becoming a
swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in ...
.
Lake Žuvintas is found in
Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve, Lithuania's oldest nature protection area.
References
External links
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Official site of Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve
Zuvintas
Important Bird Areas of Lithuania
Ramsar sites in Lithuania
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