Nespish
About the lake
- Area: 399 ha
- Location
- 4 км восточнее Браслава, у д. Рубеж
- Operator
- Браславские озера
Lake Nespish is located in the Braslav District of the Vitebsk Region, 4 km east of Braslav, within Braslav Lakes National Park.
The lake covers 4.26 km² and reaches a maximum depth of 6.3 m (average 3.2 m). It is about 4.13 km long and up to 1.4 km wide. The bottom is sandy in the shallows and covered with sapropel in deeper water. The shoreline is winding, and the lake has 15 islands; the largest is called Monastyr.
The lake lies in the Druyka basin near the village of Rubezh and is linked in the north to lakes Voyso and Nedrovo by wide channels. The lake belongs to the Braslav group: several dozen lakes with a combined area of about 130 km², linked by channels and small rivers, most of them in the Druyka basin.
Fish
The species list for this particular lake is not given in open sources; for the Braslav Lakes as a whole, sources name zander, bream, roach, pike and eel.
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