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The Mavrovo lake is settled in the
Mavrovo valley, between the Bistra, Šar and Vlainica mountain. It lies of an
attitude of 1,233 meters above the sea level and has length of 10 km and width of
3 km. The lake covers an area of 13,7 sq km of the Mavrovo national park and
it's deepest point is at the flood-gate, 48 meters.
 The
lake was built to use the waters of the Radika and Mavrovo river, in order of
production of electrical power. A power plants were built in the Raven, Vrben
village in 1959,
north of the lake on the river Radika river and another one in Vrutok, built in
1957. This power plant produces by year, 390 millions kWh. The area
of the lake as a national park is also place of tourism. During the summer
period because of the lake and in winter period the ski center "Zare
Lazarevski" works. |
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