Lake Sils
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lake in Grisons, Switzerland
Key facts
- Location
- Engadin , Grisons
- Primary inflows
- Inn , Aua da Fedoz
- Primary outflows
- Inn (named Sela until Lake Silvaplana)
- Basin countries
- Switzerland
- Max length
- 5 km (3.1 mi)
- Surface area
- 4.1 km (1.6 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 35 m (115 ft)
- Max depth
- 71 m (233 ft)
- Water volume
- 137 million cubic metres (111,000 acre⋅ft)
- Residence time
- 2.2 years
- Surface elevation
- 1,797 m (5,896 ft)
- Islands
- Chaviolas (islet)
- Settlements
- Sils , Maloja
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Named after
- Sils im Engadin/Segl
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of the Grisons
- Area
- 4.10
- Elevation
- 1795
- Image
- Silsersee.jpg
- Length
- 5
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- Commons category
- Lake Sils
- inflows
- Inn
- outflows
- Inn
- located in/on physical feature
- Engadin
- vertical depth
- 71
- volume as quantity
- 137
- basin country
- Switzerland
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Sils (German Silsersee, Romansh: Lej da Segl) is a lake in the Upper Engadine valley, Grisons, Switzerland. It takes its name from the village of Sils im Engadin.
Geography
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