Lake Synevyr - Synevyr, Ukraine
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N 48° 36.993 E 023° 40.944
34U E 697690 N 5388304
Lake Synevyr - the biggest lake in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine
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Location: Ukraine
Date Posted: 12/22/2012
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The lake Synevir is located in the west-northern part of the National Nature Park Synevir near the foothills of the Ozerna Mount (1,495 m). It belongs to the region of Pryvododilni Gorgany and is located at the height of 989 meters over the sea level. The lake was created in the post- Ice Age period (around 10 thousands years ago) due to a powerful shift of an indigenous sandstone from the southern slope of Krasna Mount, when it blocked a narrow stream valley.
Nonetheless, after the shift the waters found their way in the not very dense body of the dam and the lake became flowing. Its waters outflow underground and exiting on a surface 350 meters to the west of the lake and 60 meters lower of its ridge level mark.
The bowl of the lake fill majorly two streams. The level water in the basin constantly changes: increases during rain showers and intensive snow thaw, and decreases during winter and none-rainy season. The amplitude of the water level fluctuations in the lake reaches 4 to 4.5 meters. Respectively there changes the area of the water surface from 4.5 to 7.5 ha as well as the biggest depth from 18 to 23.5 meters.
Scientists estimated that the lake was created in the result of a powerful techtonic shift that was caused by an earthquake. The forest around the lake is believed to be 140–160 years old. There is a very small island in the middle of the lake with an area of a few meters which is called the Sea Eye (Morske Oko). The island has been flooded for sometime. The legend states that the lake appeared (2485 moons ago) out of the tears of one of count's daughters Syn, because her love, the Verkhovynian cowboy Vir, was killed by the order of the count, her father.
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