Lake Cerknica
Lake Cerknica is an intermittent lake in the southern part of the Cerknica Polje, a karst polje in Inner Carniola, a region in southwestern Slovenia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Body of water
- Description: intermittent lake
- Also known as: “Lake Zirknitz”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Cantianus’s Church.
St. Cantianus’s Church
Church
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Cantianus’s Church is situated 3 km southeast of Lake Cerknica.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Otok and Laze pri Gorenjem Jezeru.
Otok
Village
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Otok is a settlement on the southeastern shore of Lake Cerknica south of the town of Cerknica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.
Laze pri Gorenjem Jezeru
Village
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Laze pri Gorenjem Jezeru is a small settlement next to Gorenje Jezero on the southern edge of Lake Cerknica in the Municipality of Cerknica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. Laze pri Gorenjem Jezeru is situated 2½ km southeast of Lake Cerknica.
Gorenje Jezero
Village
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gorenje Jezero is a village on the southern edge of Lake Cerknica in the Municipality of Cerknica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. Gorenje Jezero is situated 3 km southeast of Lake Cerknica.
Lake Cerknica
- Categories: intermittent lake and karst lake
- Location: Municipality of Cerknica, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.74107° or 45° 44′ 28″ northLongitude
14.37696° or 14° 22′ 37″ eastElevation
547 metres (1,795 feet)Open location code
8FQPP9RG+CQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1988614035OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Lake Cerknica” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ցերկնիցա (լիճ)”
- Armenian: “Ցերկնիցա”
- Azerbaijani: “Çerknisa gölü”
- Bashkir: “Церкница (күл)”
- Bashkir: “Церкница”
- Basque: “Cerknica aintzira”
- Chinese: “采爾克尼察湖”
- Croatian: “Cerkniško jezero”
- Czech: “Cerknické jezero”
- Dutch: “Lake Cerknica”
- Esperanto: “Cerkniško”
- Finnish: “Cerknicanjärvi”
- French: “lac de Cerknica”
- French: “Lac de Cerknica”
- Georgian: “ცერკნიცის ტბა”
- German: “Cerkniško jezero”
- German: “Zirknitzer See”
- Italian: “Cerkniško jezero”
- Italian: “lago di Circonio”
- Italian: “Lago di Circonio”
- Italian: “palude Lugea”
- Latin: “Lacus Circoviensis”
- Latvian: “Cerknicas ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Cerknicos ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Церкинчко Езеро”
- Macedonian: “Церкиншко Езеро”
- Macedonian: “Церкничко Езеро”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cerknicasjøen”
- Polish: “Cerknica (jezioro)”
- Polish: “Cerkniško jezero”
- Russian: “Церкница”
- Serbian: “Церкнишко језеро”
- Slovenian: “Cerkniško jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago Cerknica”
- Swedish: “Cerknica”
- Ukrainian: “Церкниця”
- Welsh: “Llyn Cerknica”
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