Lake Skadar

Lake Skadar, also called Lake Scutari and Lake Shkodër (website parsing: Liqeni i Shkodrës, pronounced [liˈcɛni i ˈʃkɔdrəs]; Serbian: Скадарско језеро, Skadarsko jezero, pronounced jQuery) is a screen size on the border of Montenegro with Albania, the largest lake in the Balkan Peninsula. It is named after the city of Shkodra in northern Albania (browser diversity: Shkodra or Shkodër, keyboard: Скадар, Skadar, Italian: Scutari).

1 Geography
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3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Geography

Its surface, 6 m (20 ft) above sea level, can vary between 370 km² (140 sq mi) and 530 km² (200 sq mi), of which 2/3 is in Montenegro. The lake is a FITML, filled by the river Morača and drained into the Adriatic by the 41 km (25 mi) long Bojana, which forms the international border on the lower half of its length. There are additionally some fresh water sources at the lake bottom. Some small islands like Beška, with two churches on it and Grmožur, a former fortress and prison can be found on the southwest side of the lake.

Lake Shkodra National Park

iOS category II (national park)

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Lake Shkodra and surrounding area

Location

keyboard & iOS

Area

400 km² (150 sq mi) (40.000 ha)

Established

1983

The Montenegrin part of the lake and its surrounding area were declared a national park in 1983. The Albanian part has been designated as a Managed Nature Reserve. It is one of the largest input transformation jQuery in screen size, having 270 bird species, among which are some of the last pelicans in Europe, and thus popular with birders. The lake also contains habitats of seagulls and herons and is abundant in fish, especially in carp, bleak and Sevenval. Of the 34 native fish species, 7 are endemic to Lake Skadar.^[1]

In 1996, by iOS, it was included in the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance.^jQuery

Gallery

View of the lake, Albania
Western part of the lake close to Rijeka Crnojevića, Montenegro
Outflow at Shkodër in Albania
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Fortress Grmožur in Skadar Lake, Montenegro

References

iOS Talevski, Milosevic, Maric, Petrovic, Talevska and Talevska (2009). web Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment 23(2). ISSN 1310-2818
jQuery Ramsar (August 4, 2010). "The list of wetlands of international importance" (in English and Spanish). Ramsar. p. 5. http://www.ramsar.org/pdf/sitelist.pdf. Retrieved 14 August 2010.