Red Lake - details and images
For millions of years, nature begets miracles without trouble. One of them is Red Lake, located in Harghita county Bicaz the upper river at 980 meters altitude.
In the summer of 1837, a landslide closed the valley, giving rise to this magnificent lake, a magnet for tourists and nature lovers from all over the world.
Formation environment of the lake circulates numerous legends. At first, the shepherds in the area spoke of a giant snake would have caused the appearance of the lake, and later appeared a legend, and otherwise most common now, which tells the desperate cries of the beautiful Esther kidnapped by outlaws, who cries mountains collapsed and blocked the flow of water and the lake thus formed reflecting mirror and look suave face today.
Székely native inhabitants, known as Gyilkos-to lake, Lake killer. But the times and the Hungarian Red Lake was called due to another legend that talks about the hill that surpandu buried underneath a shepherd and his flock, lake red coloring. A similar story is one that speaks carutasii crossing the lake in winter, but the ice broke under them and there have perished.
The name Lake Killer contributed greatly name of the southern mountain lake, which is the break in the old days: Mount Ghilcos, that Killer Mountain.
In 170 years of existence, the lake has shrunk to half its original length, its existence is threatened by silt, the clogging and excessive proliferation of aquatic plants. Stub trees in the lake, which once stood above the gloss in large numbers are also dropping, being exposed to the vagaries of weather, water effects and thick layer of ice in the winters.
Red Lake is the biggest natural dam lake in Romania with an area of about 13 hectares a length of 2.5 km, a width of 150-200 meters and a depth of 10.5 m. The lake volume is 680,000 cubic meters and Lake shape resembles the letter L with two braturi: Sheep Valley arm length of 900 m and 438 m. arm Suhardului Valley
What he can practice nautical leisure and route around him is marked with red cross and that through in about 1h
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