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Lacar Lake

The Lacar Lake is a lake of glacial origin in the . It is enclosed in a mountain range of the Andes, at 630 m above mean sea level, approximately at . The area around the lake is mostly uninhabited, except for the small city of San Martin de los Andes on its northeastern coast.

The lake has a surface area of 55 km and a mean depth of 167 m, with a maximum of 277 m. Its catchment basin comprises 1,048 km. Unlike most of the Argentinean lakes it drains toward the Pacific Ocean in Chile via Huahum River that flows through Huahum Pass in the Andes.

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World Lakes Database

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