🌊 Lake Engure

Latvia · Europe · 3 m · 57.27°N, 23.10°E

Lake Engure is a shallow coastal lake in the Gulf of Riga of the Baltic Sea, located in north-western Latvia. It is the third largest lake in the country after Lake Lubāns and Lake Rāzna. Covering about 45 km2 within a 644 km2 catchment, it is the largest relict water body along Latvia's coast. The lake formed as a remnant of the Littorina Sea roughly 4,000 years ago and lies at the heart of the Lake Engure Nature Park, a wetland protected under the Ramsar Convention (1971).

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Quick facts

Country	Latvia
Continent / region	Europe
Surface elevation	3 m above sea level
Coordinates (approx.)	57.27°N, 23.10°E · view on map

Lake Engure sits at 3 m in Latvia, in Europe. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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