Grimselsee
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The Grimselsee or Lake Grimsel is an artificial lake near the Grimsel Pass in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. With a volume of 95 million m3 (21 billion imperial gallons, 25 billion US gallons), it is larger than other hydroelectric reservoirs in the Aare headwaters region: Oberaarsee, Räterichsbodensee and Gelmersee. The dam was completed in 1932 and is operated by Kraftwerke Oberhasli AG (KWO). It is located in the municipality of Guttannen.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Grimselsee Lake Grimsel
- Body of water.image
- Grimselsee.jpg
- Body of water.image_bathymetry
- Karte Grimselsee.png
- Body of water.location
- Guttannen, Canton of Bern
- Body of water.pushpin_map
- Canton of Bern#Switzerland#Alps
- Body of water.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Body of water.mapframe
- yes
- Body of water.mapframe zoom
- 12
- Body of water.type
- artificial lake, hydroelectric reservoir
- Body of water.inflow
- , Treibtenbach
- Body of water.outflow
- Aare
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Switzerland
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- reservoir
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Guttannen
- Area
- 2.63
- Elevation
- 1908
- Image
- Grimselpass.jpg
- Length
- 5.3
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- Commons category
- Grimselsee
- mountain range
- Alps
- outflows
- Aare
- vertical depth
- 42
- drainage basin
- Rhine basin
- watershed area
- 74.4
- volume as quantity
- 95
- basin country
- Switzerland
- street address
- Spittelnollen
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Climate
- See also
- References
- External links
The Grimselsee or Lake Grimsel is an artificial lake near the Grimsel Pass in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. With a volume of 95 million m3 (21 billion imperial gallons, 25 billion US gallons), it is larger than other hydroelectric reservoirs in the Aare headwaters region: Oberaarsee, Räterichsbodensee and Gelmersee. The dam was completed in 1932 and is operated by Kraftwerke Oberhasli AG (KWO). It is located in the municipality of Guttannen.
==Climate==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grimselsee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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