Iffigsee is a

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

near

Lenk Lenk im Simmental (or simply Lenk) is a municipality in the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. History Lenk is first mentioned in 1370 as ''An der Leng''. The oldest traces of a settlement in t ...

, in the

canton of Bern The canton of Bern, or Berne (; ; ; ), is one of the Canton of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. Its capital city, Bern, is also the ''de facto'' capital of Switzerland. The bear is the heraldic symbol of the c ...

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. The lake is located in the Iffigtal, near

Rawil Pass The Rawil Pass (el. 2429 m.) ( German: ''Rawilpass'') is a high mountain pass across the western Bernese Alps, connecting Lenk in the canton of Bern in Switzerland and Anzère or Crans Montana in the canton of Valais. The pass lies between the ...

. To the south of the lake is the

Wildhorn The Wildhorn is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the border between the Swiss cantons of Canton of Bern, Bern and Valais. At above sea level, it is the highest summit of the Bernese Alps west of the Gemmi Pass. It forms a large glaciated mass ...

(3,248 metres).

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Lakes of Switzerland Bernese Oberland Lakes of the canton of Bern LIffigsee {{bern-lake-stub

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