| Country |
Province
State |
Region |
City
Town |
District |
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Description |
Year
Taken |
| Costa Rica |
|
Arenal |
|
Lake Arenal |
|
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The lake has an area of 85 square km. |
1995 |
| Costa Rica |
|
Arenal |
|
Lake Arenal |
|
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The lake is surrounded by the slopes of Arenal Volcano. |
1995 |
| Costa Rica |
|
Arenal |
|
Lake Arenal |
|
 |
View of the lake. |
1995 |
| Costa Rica |
|
Arenal |
|
Lake Arenal |
|
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Lake Arenal is artificial from a hydroelectric dam. |
1995 |
| Costa Rica |
|
Arenal |
|
Lake Arenal |
|
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Picturesque Lake Arenal in central Costa Rica. |
1995 |
| Costa Rica |
|
Arenal |
|
Lake Arenal |
|
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The lake is like glass. |
1995 |
| Costa Rica |
|
Arenal |
|
Lake Arenal |
|
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Grazing cattle by the lake. |
1995 |
| Costa Rica |
|
Arenal |
|
Lake Arenal |
|
 |
View of Lake Arenal. |
1995 |
| Croatia |
|
North Croatia |
|
|
|
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Misty lake South of Zagreb. |
2000 |
| Cuba |
|
|
Havana |
|
Yoruba Cultural Centre |
 |
 Olosa, owner of lakes and ponds. |
2024 |
| Cuba |
|
|
Havana |
|
Yoruba Cultural Centre |
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The Orisha, Nana Buruku, a Ghanean deity of rain, swamps and lakes. |
2024 |
| Cuba |
|
|
Havana |
|
Museum of Fine Arts |
 |
"The Lake Bathers" (1936) by Carlos Enriquez. |
2024 |
| Cuba |
|
Vinales Valley |
|
|
|
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Small lake. |
2024 |
| Cuba |
|
Zapata Peninsula |
|
Laguna Tesoro |
|
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Laguna Tesoro is a lake in swampland. |
2024 |
| Cyprus |
|
|
Larnaca |
Salt Lake |
|
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Larnaca is famous for the Salt Lake on the edge of the city. |
2023 |
| Cyprus |
|
|
Larnaca |
Salt Lake |
|
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The Salt Lake is dominated by the Hala Sultan Tekke Mosque. |
2023 |
| Cyprus |
|
|
Larnaca |
Salt Lake |
|
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The lake is a salt flat most of the year and full of water in the winter. |
2023 |
| Cyprus |
|
|
Larnaca |
Salt Lake |
|
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Part of the lake is wet. |
2023 |
| Cyprus |
|
|
Larnaca |
Salt Lake |
Hala Sultan Tekke |
 |
View of the Tekke from the lakeshore. |
2023 |
| Cyprus |
|
|
Larnaca |
Salt Lake |
|
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The lake is close to the airport. |
2023 |
| Cyprus |
|
|
Larnaca |
|
Archaeological Museum |
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Aegean style flask found at the salt lake settlements (1200 BCE). |
2023 |
| Cyprus |
|
Troodos Mountains |
|
|
Kouris Lake |
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The spectacular Kouris Lake. |
2023 |
| Cyprus |
|
Troodos Mountains |
|
|
Kouris Lake |
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Kouris Lake is the reservoir of the Kouris Dam. |
2023 |
| Cyprus |
Akrotiri and Dhekelia [UK] |
Akrotiri Peninsula |
|
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|
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View of Limassol and the Salt Lake on the peninsula. |
2023 |
| Cyprus |
Akrotiri and Dhekelia [UK] |
Akrotiri Peninsula |
|
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|
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Road along the South edge of the Salt Lake. |
2023 |
| Denmark |
Faroe Islands |
Streymoy |
|
Saksunardalur Valley |
|
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Saksunarvatn Lake. |
2015 |
| Denmark |
Faroe Islands |
Streymoy |
|
Mountain Highway |
|
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Lake in the Svodini region. |
2015 |
| Denmark |
Faroe Islands |
Streymoy |
|
Mountain Highway |
|
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House by a waterfall and lake. |
2015 |
| Denmark |
Faroe Islands |
Eysturoy |
|
|
|
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Lake Eidisvatn. |
2015 |
| Egypt |
|
|
Aswan |
|
Old Aswan Dam |
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The dam created a large artificial lake. |
1986 |
| Egypt |
|
|
Aswan |
|
Old Aswan Dam |
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Boats on the lake caused by the dam. |
1986 |
| Egypt |
|
|
Aswan |
|
Aswan High Dam |
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View Southwards to Lake Nasser the world's largest artificial lake. |
1986 |
| Egypt |
|
|
Aswan |
Lake Nasser |
|
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Lake Nasser is 500 square km in area. |
1986 |
| Egypt |
|
|
Aswan |
Lake Nasser |
|
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Lake Nasser is the largest artificial lake in the world. |
1986 |
| Egypt |
|
|
Aswan |
Lake Nasser |
|
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Desert next to the flooded lake area. |
1986 |
| Egypt |
|
|
Aswan |
Lake Nasser |
|
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View of the lake from a n oasis. |
1986 |
| Egypt |
|
|
Aswan |
Lake Nasser |
|
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Many temples were flooded by the lake and some were moved to higher ground. |
1986 |
| El Salvador |
|
Cerro Verde National Park |
|
Coatepeque Lake |
|
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Coatepeque Lake, set in an ancient volcanic crater, is 6km wide. |
1995 |
| El Salvador |
|
Cerro Verde National Park |
|
Coatepeque Lake |
|
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The lake is 120m deep and the crater slopes rise 500m above it. |
1995 |
| El Salvador |
|
Cerro Verde National Park |
|
Coatepeque Lake |
|
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The lake is large enough to contain an island. |
1995 |
| El Salvador |
|
|
Cojutepeque |
|
|
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View of Lake Illopango (15km by 8km), the largest in the country. |
1995 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
Bahir Dar |
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|
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Lake Tana is the largest lake in Ethiopia. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
Bahir Dar |
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|
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Morning over Lake Tana from Bahir Dar. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
Bahir Dar |
|
|
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Small boat on the lake. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
Bahir Dar |
|
|
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Bahir Dar is set on the southern shore of Lake Tana. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
|
Southern Lake Tana |
|
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Doves by the lake at dawn. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
|
Southern Lake Tana |
|
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The southern shores of the lake. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
|
Southern Lake Tana |
|
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Pelican colony on the lake. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
|
Southern Lake Tana |
|
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Lake Tana is surrounded by mountains. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
|
Southern Lake Tana |
|
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The lake has many islands. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
|
Zege Peninsula |
|
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The Zege Peninsula is a fertile area on the Eastern shore of the lake. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
|
Zege Peninsula |
Azuwa Maryam |
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The church at Azuwa Maryam, like many on Lake Tana, is round. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
|
Eastern Lake Tana |
|
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Small island on the lake. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Lake Tana |
|
Blue Nile Source |
|
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Snakebird (Darter) on the banks of the Blue Nile at its source on Lake Tana. |
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
Amhara |
Northern Amhara |
|
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|
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The Northern part of the Amhara region to the East of Lake Tana is fertile. |
2011 |
| Finland |
|
Southern Plains |
|
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|
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Lakes to the East of Helsinki. |
2005 |
| Finland |
|
Southern Plains |
|
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|
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Finland is a land of lakes. |
2005 |
| France |
|
|
Paris |
Versailles |
|
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The boating lake. |
2014 |
| France |
|
|
Paris |
Versailles |
|
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Tourists on the boating lake. |
2014 |
| France |
|
|
Giverny |
|
Monet House |
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Willow tree over the lake. |
2014 |
| Georgia |
|
|
Mtskheta |
|
|
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Small forested lake. |
2011 |
| Georgia |
|
Military Highway |
Arugvi Valley |
|
Ananuri Fortress |
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Bell tower overlooking the lake. |
2011 |
| Germany |
Brandenburg |
|
Potsdam |
New Garden |
|
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New Garden is a park by a large lake. |
2022 |
| Germany |
Brandenburg |
|
Potsdam |
New Garden |
|
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The lake. |
2022 |
| Germany |
Brandenburg |
|
Potsdam |
New Garden |
|
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Houses by the lake. |
2022 |
| Germany |
Brandenburg |
|
Potsdam |
New Garden |
|
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Potsdam is a town of palaces. This is the lakeside Marble Palace (1791). |
2022 |
| Germany |
Brandenburg |
|
Potsdam |
New Garden |
|
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View across the lake. |
2022 |
| Germany |
Brandenburg |
|
Potsdam |
New Garden |
|
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The lake and its forests. |
2022 |
| Germany |
Brandenburg |
|
Potsdam |
New Garden |
|
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Lakeside mansion. |
2022 |
| Germany |
Bavaria |
Chiemsee |
|
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|
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Chiemsee is a lake also known as the Bavarian Sea. |
2013 |
| Greece |
|
|
Vergina |
Profitis Hilias Lake |
|
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The picturesque Profitis Hilias Lake. |
2014 |
| Greece |
|
|
Vergina |
Profitis Hilias Lake |
|
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The lake is artificial. |
2014 |
| Greece |
|
|
Vergina |
Profitis Hilias Lake |
|
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The lake is near the village of Vergina. |
2014 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
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|
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Lake Atitlan is a beautful lake in central Guatemala. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
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|
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The lake is 18km long and up to 10km wide. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
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|
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Volcan Toliman (3158m) is one of three volcanos surrounding the lake. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
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|
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There are many Mayan communities by the lake. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
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|
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The lake is at an elavation of 1562m. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
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|
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Lakeside boats used to reach villages without road access. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
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|
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Three of the volcanos surrounding Lake Atitlan. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
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|
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View of the lake. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
|
|
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The volcanic slopes come down to the lake. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
|
|
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Lakeside view. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
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|
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The lake is 10km at its widest. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
|
|
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The lake is 340m at its deepest. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
Panajachel |
|
|
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The lakeside village of Panajachel. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
Panajachel |
|
|
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Man from Solola, a large village above the lake. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
Panajachel |
|
|
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Tzutujil woman from the lake village of Santiago. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
Panajachel |
|
|
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Boats by the lake. |
1995 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
Panajachel |
|
|
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Orchids grow wild around the lake. |
1995 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
|
|
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View from the Eastern shore of the lake. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
|
|
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Forested lake shore. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
|
|
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Lakeside settlements. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
|
|
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Lake Atitlan is a beautiful volcanic lake at 1560m. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
Santa Catarina |
|
|
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Santa Catarina is one of the villages on the Eastern shore of the lake. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
Santa Catarina |
|
|
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Santa Catarina is on the slopes of the lake shore. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
|
|
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View of the lake. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
|
|
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Above the lake. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
|
|
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Lake Atitlan is a 50 square km volcanic crater filled with water. |
1991 |
| Guatemala |
|
Lake Atitlan |
|
|
|
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The lakeside slopes contain orchards and forests. |
1991 |
