List of lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina explained

Natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina take, which is a little more than 0.12% of the total surface area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Buško Blato is the largest lake, its size being 56.7 km2. Blidinje lake is the largest natural mountain lake in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with surface area varying between, and Buško Blato lake with its size of is the biggest artificial accumulation in Bosnia and Herzegovina; this lake was made from accumulation of water from the Buško Blato marshland, earlier natural slough and morass system.[1] The total size of all lakes is 1/10 as large as the world average. Because of this, natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not economically important.

All the natural lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina are younger than 9000 years, unlike the other European lakes. This was concluded after the explorations of absolute age of the lake silt. It was written in older literature that the mountain lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina were made because of glacial movements, and the lower altitude lakes of river flows in combination with glaciations, but many other facts were unattended. In the mountain parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina animal husbandry had a crucial impact on lakes. Every ranch had its own lake which served as a cattle watering-place. If there were no natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, then the artificial lakes were made, for example Jugovo Lake at Zelengora mountain.

Unlike the mountain lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Plivsko Lake was made of a natural chemical precipitate of carbonate minerals and forming travertine sediment in the process. The subsistence of these lakes is highly threatened by urbanisation, which began in the 1960s.

Hutovo Blato was made in the valley of the Neretva river and its existence depends on the energy and meliorative attempts in the underflow of Neretva river. Ichthyological research of natural lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina began in 1924 and that research determined good natural and biological opportunities for the fish farming.

List of lakes

LakeOriginMunicipality/Town/Village/Mountain
Alagovac LakeNaturalNevesinje
Balkana Lake
  • Natural/Artificial
Mrkonjić Grad
Bara Lake
Bardača LakeNaturalSrbac
Bašigovačko LakeNaturalŽivinice
Bijelo LakeNaturalTreskavica
Bijelo lakeNaturalZelengora
Bilećko LakeArtificialBileća
Bistarac LakeNaturalLukavac
Bijelo Borje LakeNaturalBijelo Borje - Vareš
Blatačko LakeNaturalKonjic/Bjelašnica
Blidinje Lake
  • Natural/Artificial[2]
Tomislavgrad/Posušje, Vran Mt., Čvrsnica Mt.
Bočac LakeArtificialBočac
Boračko LakeNaturalKonjic/Glavatičevo
Breštica LakeNaturalBanovići
Bukvensko Lake
Busača Lake
Busija LakeNaturalGlamoč
Buško BlatoArtificialLivno
Bužimsko LakeArtificialBužim
Crno LakeNaturalTreskavica
Crno LakeNaturalZelengora
Crvenjak LakeNaturalČvrsnica
Deransko LakeNaturalHutovo Blato
Donje BareNaturalZelengora
Drenova LakeNaturalPrnjavor
Drijen VreloNaturalHutovo Blato
Goransko JezeroArtificialDoboj
Gornje BareNaturalZelengora
Grabovičko LakeArtificialJablanica
Grahovčići Lake
  • Artificial/Natural
Travnik
Grajseljići LakeArtificialUlog
Gubinsko Lake
Gvozno LakeNaturalUlog
Hazna LakeArtificialGradačac
Hrast LakeNaturalGlamoč
Humci LakeČelić
Idovačko LakeNaturalRaduša
Ispod Pržića Malo Lake
  • Artificial/Natural
Vareš
Ispod Pržića Veliko Lake
  • Artificial/Natural
Vareš
Jablaničko LakeArtificialJablanica/Konjic
Jasikovac LakeNaturalDrvar
Jelim LakeNaturalHutovo Blato
Jelovac Lake
Jugovo LakeNaturalZelengora
Kalemovo LakeProzor-Rama, at an elevation of 900m
Kladopoljsko LakeNaturalZelengora
Klinje LakeArtificialGacko
Kotlaničko LakeNaturalZelengora
Krenica LakeNaturalDrinovačko field
Kukavičko LakeNaturalKupres
Kvrkulja Lake
Laminci LakeNaturalGradiška
Lipsko LakeArtificialLivno
Mali Lug
  • Artificial/Natural
Fojnica
Malo Lake
Malo Plivsko LakeNaturalJajce
Mandek LakeArtificialLivno
Mezgraja Lake
  • Artificial/Natural
Ugljevik
Mijino Lake
Mlado Lake
  • Artificial/Natural
Kakanj
Modračko LakeArtificialLukavac
Mostarsko LakeArtificialMostar
Nuga LakeArtificialTihaljina
Orah LakeNaturalHutovo Blato
Orlovo LakeOzren
Oličko Lake
Opačićko LakeNaturalGlamoč
Orlovačko LakeNaturalZelengora
Panonsko LakeArtificialTuzla
Pasje Lake
Paučko Lake
  • Natural/Artificial
Kladanj
Pelagićevo Lake
  • Artificial/Natural
Pelagićevo
Peručaćko LakeArtificialPeručac
Pijavičko Lake
Platno LakeNaturalTreskavica, above Veliko lake
Popovača Lake
Preodačko LakeArtificialDrvar
Prokoško LakeNaturalVranica
Radovan LakeArtificialGornji Vakuf
Ramsko LakeArtificialProzor
Ramičko LakeNaturalBanovići
Rastičevsko LakeNaturalKupres
Salakovačko LakeArtificialMostar/Salakovac
SniježnicaArtificialTeočak
Starača Lake
Šatorsko LakeNaturalŠator
Šićki Brod Lake
  • Artificial/Natural
Šićki Brod
Škrka LakeNaturalHutovo Blato
Štirinsko Lake (Serbian: Штиринско Језеро / Štirinsko Jezero)NaturalZelengora
Trebinjsko LakeArtificialTrebinje
Tribistovo LakeArtificialPosušje
Turjača LakeNaturalKupres
Uloško Lake (a.k.a. Crvanjsko Lake)NaturalUlog
Vareš Lake
  • Artificial/Natural
Vareš
Velež LakeVelež
Veliki Lug
  • Artificial/Natural
Fojnica
Veliko LakeNaturalTreskavica
Veliko Plivsko Lake
  • Natural/Artificial
Jajce
Vidara LakeArtificialGradačac
Vijenac Lake
  • Natural/Artificial
Banovići
Višegradsko LakeVišegrad
Vrtliško Lake
  • Artificial/Natural
Kakanj
Vrutak LakeArtificialHutovo
Zanasovići Lake
  • Artificial/Natural
Bugojno
Žabar LakeNaturalPelagicevo
Zvorničko LakeArtificialZvornik
Ždrimačko LakeGornji Vakuf
Župica Lake, a.k.a. Prekajsko LakeArtificialDrvar

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Buško Blato part of the Livanjsko field . Euronatur.org. 2009-06-12.
  2. Radoš. Denis. 2017. A history of the occurrence of Blidinje lake (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Geoadria. 22 . 1. 1–40.

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