Lake Futalaufquen

The Lago Futalaufquen is located in the province Argentine of Chubut, in Patagonie, The origin of its name comes from the language Mapudungun: futa = large, and laufquen = lake.

Situation

Its approximate coordinates are: 42°5' lat. Long south and 71°4'. West It is located within the National park Los Alerces. It is of glacial origin, and occupies a deep valley, old bed of a large disappeared glacier 10.000 years ago following the end of the last glaciation.

Description

Its surface is at an altitude of 518 meters.
Its surface is of 44.600.000 of m2 is 44,6 square kilometers (almost identical to that of the Lac of Le Bourget in France).
Its depth average is of 101 meters.
Its depth maximum is of 168 meters.
the volume of water contained is of 4,51 billion cubic tons or kilometers.
the length of its banks east of 72,5 kilometers.
the time of residence of water is of 0,94 year.
the surface of its basin is of 2.920 km ², comparable with that of the department of the Rhone in France, like with that of the province of Antwerp in Belgium, but a little lower than that of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Its emissary the Río Futaleufú has a flow of more or less 150 cubic meters a second at the exit of the lake.

Hydrology

It belongs to a basin whose water crosses the cordillera to flow in the Pacific Ocean in Chile, that of the Río Futaleufú.

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