Fierza Lake

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Fierza Lake (Albanian: Liqeni i Fierzës) is a large lake in Albania and Kosovo. Fierza Lake is an artificial lake of the Drin river and small parts of the White Drin and Black Drin rivers which run through the lake. The size of the lake is 73 km² of which only 2.16 km² belong to Kosovo. It is 70 km long and has a depth of 128 m. In the Albanian side of the lake there are many canyons and some small islands.
The lake's dam was built in 1978 by the Albanian government to create hydroelectric power from the Drin river.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fierza_(reservoir)
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Coordinates:   42°7'18"N   20°16'37"E