Lake Faak (german: Faaker See; sl, Baško jezero) is a

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in the

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n state of Carinthia. With an area of approximately , it is the state's fifth-largest lake.

Geography

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The lake is located southeast of

Villach Villach (; sl, Beljak; it, Villaco; fur, Vilac) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the p ...

in the Drava Valley, below the northern slope of the

Karawanks The Karawanks or Karavankas or Karavanks ( sl, Karavanke; german: Karawanken, ) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps on the border between Slovenia to the south and Austria to the north. With a total length of in an east–west dir ...

mountain range beneath Mt.

Mittagskogel The Mittagskogel (German) or Kepa (Slovenian) has an elevation of aA, Federal Agency of Metrology and Surveying, Austria, Map 1:50000 and is thus the third highest mountain in the Karawanks range, after Hochstuhl/Stol and the Vertratscha/ Vrta ...

(Kepa). The settlements of Drobollach and Egg on the northern shore belong to the City of Villach. The village of Faak to the southwest, after which the lake is named, is part of the municipality of Finkenstein. It is the only lake in Carinthia located on the right bank of Drava River). Lake Faak, known for its clear turquoise water, is a popular

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destination with a wide range of hotels and restaurants on the shore. European Bike Week, the largest motorcycle rally in Europe, is annually held at the lake in September. Fishing, especially for whitefish (''Reinanke'') but also for carp,

pike Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to: Fish * Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus'' * Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes * ''Esox'', genus of ...

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, and

zander The zander (''Sander lucioperca''), sander or pikeperch, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Percidae, which includes the perches, ruffes and darters. It is found in freshwater and brackish habitats in western Eurasia. It is a popul ...

, is quite common. In 1855, Lake Faak inspired the local priest Franc Treiber to compose the song ''Nmav čez izaro'' (Over the Lake), which soon became one of the best-known Slovene folk songs, and still today is considered the unofficial anthem of the

Carinthian Slovenes Carinthian Slovenes or Carinthian Slovenians ( sl, Koroški Slovenci; german: Kärntner Slowenen) are the indigenous minority of Slovene ethnicity, living within borders of the Austrian state of Carinthia, neighboring Slovenia. Their status of ...

.Info at gorenjskiglas.si

References

External links

Carinthian Institute of Limnology

Tourism site
Lakes of Carinthia (state) Mountain lakes {{Carinthia-geo-stub