Tisza Lake is located in the northern part of the Great Hungarian Plain, on the border of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Heves and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok counties.
Between 1967 and 1973, the Kisköre Power Plant was built with a dam for regulation of Tisza floods and more efficient water supply to the Great Plain. Its filling was completed in 1978. The water of the artificial Lake covered former backwaters, watercourses, pastures, forests and arable lands.
The area of the Lake is 127km², on which open water surfaces, islands, backwaters, shallow channels alternate. The Lake’s length is 27km, the average depth is 1.3m, but at the deepest point it is 17m deep.
It has a diverse flora and fauna. 124 bird species nest in the lake’s area, so there is a bird reservation on the north coast of the lake. There are more than 30 species of fish in the lake, from which it is highly protected like Zingel zingel, Misgurnus fossilis and Umbra krameri.
It has been the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.
- GPS
- 47.5638428, 20.6345558
- Geographical region
- Eastern Europe
- Drainage Basin
- Danube
- River catchment
- Tisza
- Water body type
- Lake
- Water body name
- Tisza Lake
- Water body part
- Pool
- Water body course
- Water body: tributary of
- River
- Tributary name
- Tisza
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