Key facts
- Location
- Abkhazia (de facto) Georgia (de jure)
- Primary inflows
- Lashipsa River
- Primary outflows
- Iupshara River
- Basin countries
- Georgia
- Surface area
- 1.49 km (0.58 sq mi)
- Max depth
- 116 m (381 ft)
- Shore length
- 4.29 km (2.67 mi)
- Surface elevation
- 950 m (3,120 ft)
- Settlements
- Avadhara
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Republic of Abkhazia
- Located in
- Gudauta District
- Area
- 1.5
- Elevation
- 884
- Image
- Lake rica.jpg
- Perimeter
- 4.290
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- outflows
- Iupshara River
- Commons category
- Lake Ritsa
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- basin country
- Republic of Abkhazia
- vertical depth
- 116
- native label
- რიწა
- located in protected area
- Ritsa Nature Reserve
- watershed area
- 154
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
1947 Soviet stamp depicting resort buildings at Lake Ritsa
Lake Ritsa (Georgian: რიწა, romanized: rits'a; Abkhaz: Риҵа) is a lake in the north-western part of Abkhazia, in the Caucasus Mountains. It is surrounded by mixed mountain forests and subalpine meadows. The road from the Black Sea coast was built in 1936. The resort of Avadhara lies to the north of the lake. The lake was an important tourist attraction during the Soviet period. While the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Russia-Georgian war destroyed much of the tourism industry in the country, the lake is still frequently visited by Russian tourists.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Ritsa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.