Okanagan Lake
Lago en Okanagan Valley, Canada
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Acceso y tarifas
- no lake entry fee (tarifa: ninguno indicado)
Qué hacer
- navegación (setting: full lake)
- cliff diving (ubicación: Squally Point, west shore)
- pesca (especies: rainbow trout, kokanee)
- natación (setting: lake beaches)
Mejor época para visitar
- summer for swimming/boating (temporada: verano)
Características
- drained by okanagan river (exit: south end via Penticton canal)
- glacial sediment up to 750 m (epoch: Pleistoceno)
- glacially carved fjord lake (area km2: 348 · width km: 4–5 · length km: 135)
- length 135 km (imperial: 84 mi)
- maximum depth 232 m (ubicación: near Grant Island)
- multiple beaches and parks (along: lake shoreline)
- ogopogo lake monster legend (description: serpent-like creature)
- rapid nearshore drop-off (profundidad: 100 m at 10 m offshore)
- surface area 348 km2 (imperial: 135 sq mi)
- valley terraces (use: fruit cultivation)
- width 4–5 km (imperial: 2.5–3.1 mi)
- william r. bennett bridge (tipo: five-lane floating bridge · connects: Kelowna–West Kelowna)
Cerca de aquí
- fintry delta (ubicación: west shore)
- peachland (position: south of West Kelowna)
- penticton (position: south end of lake)
- rattlesnake island (ubicación: east of Peachland)
- summerland (position: northwest of Penticton)
- vernon (position: north end of lake)
- vernon, penticton, kelowna (relación: bordering cities)
- west kelowna (position: west shore)
Datos útiles
- bridge has boat arch — high passage arch for watercraft
Identificador de catálogo: AVIA-7DY4-KFPWY
Fotos
Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons