Wichelsee
Sign in to saveWichelsee is a lake in Obwalden, Switzerland. Its surface area is . The reservoir is located in the municipalities of Alpnach and Sarnen. It formed after the Sarner Aa was dammed in 1955. The area around the lake was protected in 2005.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Wichelsee is referenced by 6 other articles, and connects out to Switzerland, lake and geographic coordinate system.
The entry is geolocated on the map in OW, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Lakes of Obwalden, Protected areas of Switzerland and Reservoirs in Switzerland.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- reservoir
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Obwalden
- Area
- 0.22
- Elevation
- 459
- Image
- Wichelsee bei Alpnach.jpg
- Perimeter
- 4.262
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- outflows
- Sarner Aa
- inflows
- Sarner Aa
- basin country
- Switzerland
- Commons category
- Wichelsee
- volume as quantity
- 400.000
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Encyclopedic overview
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Wichelsee is a lake in Obwalden, Switzerland. Its surface area is . The reservoir is located in the municipalities of Alpnach and Sarnen. It formed after the Sarner Aa was dammed in 1955. The area around the lake was protected in 2005.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wichelsee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations