Lac d'Oô, Mountain lake in Haute-Garonne, France.
Description
This body of water extends across 42 hectares at an altitude of 1,507 meters (4,944 feet), reaching depths of 67 meters (220 feet) in the French Pyrenees.
History
Previously known as Séculéjo until the 1800s, the facility received its current dam infrastructure in 1921 for hydroelectric generation purposes.
Culture
Painter Louis-François Lejeune documented this location in 1834, establishing it as a subject in French artistic representations of the Pyrenees mountain ranges.
Practical
The GR10 hiking route connects the Granges d'Astau parking facility to this destination through a one-hour walk on marked trails.
Did you know?
The facility holds 13 million cubic meters of water, supplying a 30-megawatt power station while maintaining habitat conditions suitable for trout populations.
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Occitanie hosts a wide variety of lakes spread between the Pyrenees and the Massif Central. Natural lakes mainly occupy high-altitude zones in the Pyrenees, where glacial erosion has carved out cirques and basins now filled with water. Lake Oô, located at 4,950 feet (1,507 meters) altitude, receives...
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