Lago di Lei

Lago di Lei
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Location	Lombardy (IT), Grisons (CH)
Coordinates
Type	hydroelectric reservoir
Primary outflows	Reno di Lei
Catchment area	46.5 km²
Basin countries	Italy, Switzerland
Max. length	7.7 km
Surface area	4.12 km²
Max. depth	133 m
Water volume	197 mio m³
Surface elevation	1,931 m

Lago di Lei is a reservoir in the Valle di Lei. The reservoir is almost entirely located in Italy, but the barrage was built on territory later assigned to Switzerland (municipality of Innerferrera, Grisons), while an equivalent territory north of the lake was assigned to Italy. The dam is operated by Kraftwerke Hinterrhein. The waters of the lake are the only waters in Italian territory which end up in the North Sea, being part of the Rhine's drainage basin. Other waters of Italy that don't flow to the Mediterranean Sea are found in the valley of Livigno, valley of Sexten, Puster Valley east of Innichen, and most of the waters of the municipality of Tarvisio east of Sella Nevea: all these waters flow to the Black Sea.

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Valle di Lei in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

• KHR: Valle di Lei: Der Rhein entspringt auch in Italien (German)
• KHR: Valle di Lei: il Reno è anche un po' italiano (Italian)