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Lago de Caicedo-Yuso y Arreo

Erriberagoitia/Ribera Alta, Cuadrilla de Añana, Álava

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Lago de Caicedo-Yuso y Arreo

Nature · Erriberagoitia/Ribera Alta, Cuadrilla de Añana, Álava

The only natural lake in the Basque Autonomous Community, located at 650 m altitude between Caicedo-Yuso and Arreo. With about 15 hectares of water surface and up to 25 meters deep, it is one of only two lakes on the Iberian Peninsula formed over a salt diapir (the Añana diapir); it is fed by a saline spring and surrounded by Portuguese oaks, holm oaks, and marsh vegetation.

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