Lake Tarnița () is a reservoir located in
Cluj County
Cluj County () is a county () of Romania, in Transylvania. Its seat is Cluj-Napoca.
Name
In Hungarian language, Hungarian it is known as ''Kolozs megye''. Under the Kingdom of Hungary, a county with an identical name (Kolozs County, ) existed s ...
,
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
, between the communes of
Râșca,
Mărișel, and
Gilău, west of
Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...
. Covering some ,
[2017 Romanian Statistical Yearbook]
p. 15 with a length of close to and a maximum depth of over , it is a popular tourist destination. Water from the
Someșul Cald River flows into the reservoir. A high dam was completed in 1974.
[Lake Tarnița]
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Geography of Cluj County
Lakes of Romania
Reservoirs in Romania