Vidraru Lake

        It is a picturesque place as a tourist destination, which combines the pleasure under the mountains and offers you the lake itself as a point for your holidays!

       
          Vidraru Lake is a reservoir created in 1965 on Arges river for power generation.Situated between mountains and the Massif Fruntii Ghitu, add rivers Goat Lake, Buda and of several direct tributaries (River Lady, and Cernatul Valsan, topology, Valea lui Stan and clear), with a total flow of about 5.5 m3 / s

. The total area of the lake is 893 ha, length of 10.3 kilometers, maximum width of 2.2 km in the Wolf Valley – nun and a circumference of 28 km.

Maximum depth of water near the dam is 155m high 166m curved, with a length of 307m crown, and water volume is 465 million cubic meters.Normal retention level is 830.00 m above sea level.

             Vidraru dam construction took five years and a half starting in 1960.

For this achievement, it took 42 km of underground tunnels were excavated from 1.768 million m3 of rock, of which about 1 million underground were 930,000 m3 of concrete poured in the 400,000 m3 underground well

were installed 6300 tonnes of electromechanical equipment.

On completion it was located, measured in height, about 8th place in Europe and ranks 20th in the world.

          The lake  Vidraru offers plenty of opportunities to make a nice vacation, especially through the activities which it manages to deliver. The most important thing is the oxygen-rich air, unpolluted, the company which you can soar the heights of mountains, in organized trips. Boating is another alternative if you stopped in those places.

        You can find near the lake a lot of hostels and restaurants. They are sited along the lake with a great view to the water. Cabana Cumpana is a reference point in hotels area beeing one of the most important and is situated aabout 200 m from water.

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