Voulkaria Lake

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Lake Voulkaria is a marshy inland body of water, known to the ancient Greeks as Myrtountion. Occupying an area of ​​9.2 km ², it has a maximum length of 4 km and a width of 3,5 km. The surface of the lake is a little higher than the surface of the sea. The lake is very shallow, its maximum depth reaching 2.9 meters
It receives the waters of the torrent of Sklavainas and the excess of water from the Akarnanika spring near the village of Monastiraki.
An artificial moat 1400 meters long allows the lake to communicate with the sea, known as a channel of Cleopatra, which has made it brackish.
Lake Voulkaria serves as a station for migratory birds and its wetland is of international importance and protected by the Ramsar Convention on wetlands along the Ambrakian Gulf.

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