Lake Brâncoveanu
Lake Brâncoveanu (Romanian: Lacul Brâncoveanu) is a natural salt lake in the town of Ocna Sibiului, Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is one of the many lakes of the Ocna Sibiului mine, a large salt mine which has one of the largest salt reserves in Romania. [1] The lake has the biggest salinity out of every lake in the mine and is one of Romania's most salty lakes.
Name
The lake is named after Constantin Brâncoveanu, a ruler of Wallachia.
History
Lake Brâncoveanu is situated on the site of a salt mine that was in operation until 1699, when the water infiltration caused its abandoning. In 1966, the water level of the lake had a sharp decrease of 11 m, because of the leakage of water through a crack produced in the salt wall in the underground lake adjacent to the Ignatius mine.
Information
- Surface: 567,5 m²
- Maximum Depth: 13,6 m
- Salinity: 310 g/l (1st in the salt mine)
Lakes of the salt mine
- Auster
- Lake Avram Iancu-Ocniţa
- Balta cu Nămol
- Brâncoveanu
- Cloşca
- Crişan
- Lacul Fără Fund
- Gura Minei
- Horea
- Mâţelor
- Negru
- Pânzelor
- Rândunica
- Verde (Freshwater lake)
- Vrăjitoarelor (Freshwater lake)
References
- ↑ "Lacuri Naturale - Ocna Sibiului". www.ocna-sibiu.ro. Retrieved 12 June 2017.