Colico Lake is located in the

La Araucanía Region LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Ange ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

. The neighboring

Caburgua Lake Caburgua Lake () is located 23 km northeast of the city of Pucón, in the La Araucanía Region of Chile. Huerquehue National Park lies to the east of the lake. Like Villarrica Lake, it is part of Toltén River basin. During summer the out ...

lies to the east of the lake and the

Villarrica Lake Lake Villarrica, also known as Mallalafquén (its pre-Hispanic name is Mapudungun), is located about 700 kilometers south of Santiago in Chile's Lake District in the southeast area of the Province of Cautín. On its east shore lies the city of ...

to the south. The lake is the second deepest entirely within chilean borders (next to

Grey Lake Grey Lake is a glacially fed lake in Torres del Paine National Park, southern Chile. Gallery File:Parque nacional Torres de Paine.svg, Grey Lake, in the Torres del Paine National Park File:Patagonia-88 (26207532472).jpg, A bergy bit iceberg o ...

). Colico Lake is the deepest non-

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in Chile. Species of fish in the lake include

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and pejerrey. Nearby flora includes trees such as coigue and

oak An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' of the beech family. They have spirally arranged leaves, often with lobed edges, and a nut called an acorn, borne within a cup. The genus is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisp ...

, and shrubs such as Chilean firebush, hummingbird fuchsia, and quila.

References

Colico Colico (Comasco, Comasque: or ; ) is a town and comune in the province of Lecco, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated on the northern arm of Lake Como, where the river Adda (river), Adda enters the lake. Colico is the largest town i ...

Lakes of Araucanía Region {{Araucanía-geo-stub