Lake Kreda is a man-made

lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...

in the Radovna Valley in northwestern

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. The lake got its name from the

chalk Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor. Ch ...

( sl, kreda) that was mined in the area until 1985. The digging also created a basin, which gradually filled with water and the lake appeared. The mining ceased because it was unprofitable and due to conservation concerns (the area is within

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), but the lake remained and is now occasionally used as a recreation site. Today, the lake and its surrounding

wetland A wetland is a distinct ecosystem that is flooded or saturated by water, either permanently (for years or decades) or seasonally (for weeks or months). Flooding results in oxygen-free (anoxic) processes prevailing, especially in the soils. The p ...

s are an important habitat for amphibians, such as the common frog and the

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in the Radovna Valley.

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Kreda Kreda may refer to: * Kreda, a clan of the Daza people of North Africa * Kréda (horse), a variant of the Dongola horse breed * Lake Kreda, a lake in Slovenia * Kreda, a word in some Slavic languages referring to chalk or to the Cretaceous Th ...

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