Sihlsee
Sign in to save__NOTOC__ The Sihlsee (; in English sometimes called Lake Sihl) is an artificial lake in the Swiss canton of Schwyz, near the town of Einsiedeln. The lake was created by damming the river Sihl and flooding a section of the upper Sihl Valley.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Sihlsee
- Body of water.image
- Sihlsee - Willerzell IMG 2839.JPG
- Body of water.image_bathymetry
- Karte Sihlsee.png
- Body of water.caption_bathymetry
- Map
- Body of water.location
- Canton of Schwyz
- Body of water.type
- reservoir
- Body of water.inflow
- Sihl, Minster
- Body of water.outflow
- Sihl
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Switzerland
- Body of water.cities
- Gross, Willerzell, Birchli, Euthal
- Body of water.pushpin_map
- Canton of Schwyz#Switzerland#Alps
- Body of water.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Body of water.mapframe
- yes
- Body of water.mapframe zoom
- 11
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Named after
- Sihl
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Einsiedeln
- Area
- 10.81
- Elevation
- 880
- Image
- Sihlsee Fluebrig.jpg
- Width
- 2.5
- Length
- 8.5
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- Commons category
- Sihlsee
- inflows
- Sihl
- outflows
- Sihl
- vertical depth
- 23
- mountain range
- Alps
- watershed area
- 156
- volume as quantity
- 96
- basin country
- Switzerland
- drainage basin
- Rhine basin
- inception
- 1937-00-00
- native label
- Sihlsee
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__NOTOC__ The Sihlsee (; in English sometimes called Lake Sihl) is an artificial lake in the Swiss canton of Schwyz, near the town of Einsiedeln. The lake was created by damming the river Sihl and flooding a section of the upper Sihl Valley.
The lake feeds the Etzelwerk power station, which is located to the north-east in Altendorf on the upper section of Lake Zürich (the Obersee) and which supplies electricity to the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). Its concrete dam is high and m long. The lake is the largest artificial lake of Switzerland in terms of surface with a maximum length of and maximum width of . The maximum depth is , and the lake has an approximate volume of .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sihlsee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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