Guatemala 11 Lago Atitlan1

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Lake Atitlán (Lago de Atitlán) is a large endorheic lake (one that does not flow to the sea) in the Guatemalan Highlands. While Atitlan is recognized to be the deepest lake in Central America, its bottom has not been completely sounded. Estimates of its maximum depth range up to 340 meters. The lake is shaped by deep escarpments which surround it and by three volcanos on its southern flank. Lake Atitlan is further characterized by towns and villages of the Maya people. The lake is volcanic in origin, filling an enormous caldera formed in an eruption 84,000 years ago. It is renowned as one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, and Aldous Huxley famously wrote of it: "Lake Como, it seems to me, touches on the limit of permissibly picturesque, but Atitlán is Como with additional embellishments of several immense volcanoes. It really is too much of a good thing." (Wikipedia)

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lac vulcanic cu apă dulce, 330 km², înconjurat de trei vulcani: Tolimán, Atitlán şi San Pedro. Este situat la o altitudine de 1562 metri

În fiecare zi la ora 17 se iscă o tornadă în mijlocul lacului (şocomil)Nici un râu nu izvoreşte sau nu se varsă în lac. Nivelul apei se reglează subteran

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Vulcanul Tolimán 3158 m

Vulcanul San Pedro 3020 m

Vulcanul Atitlán 2540 m

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