Lake Izabal
Lake Izabal, also known as the Golfo Dulce, is the largest lake in Guatemala with a surface area of 672 km2 and a maximum depth of 18 m. The Polochic River is the largest river that drains into the lake.Photo: Willyman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake
- Also known as: “Golfo Dulce”, “Gulf of Dulce”, and “Laguna de Izabal”
Lake Izabal
- Category: body of water
- Location: Izabal Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Izabal from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Lake Izabal” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Izabal aintzira”
- Belarusian: “Ісабаль”
- Breton: “Lenn Izabal”
- Bulgarian: “Исабал (езеро)”
- Bulgarian: “Исабал”
- Catalan: “llac Izabal”
- Catalan: “Llac Izabal”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de Izabal”
- Cebuano: “Lago de Izabal”
- Chinese: “伊薩瓦爾湖”
- Chuvash: “Исабаль”
- Czech: “Izabal”
- Dutch: “Izabalmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره ايزابال”
- Esperanto: “Lago Izabal”
- French: “lac Izabal”
- French: “Lac Izabal”
- German: “Izabal-See”
- German: “Lago de Izabal”
- Hebrew: “אגם איסבל”
- Hungarian: “Izabal-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Izabal”
- Japanese: “イサバル湖”
- Korean: “이사발호”
- Latvian: “Isabals”
- Lithuanian: “Isabalio ežeras”
- Malayalam: “ഇസബൽ തടാകം”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Izabalsjøen”
- Polish: “Izabal”
- Portuguese: “Lago de Izabal”
- Russian: “Исабаль”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Izabal (jezero)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Izabal”
- Slovak: “Izabal”
- Slovenian: “Izabal”
- Slovenian: “Izabalsko jezero”
- Slovenian: “Lago de Izabal”
- Spanish: “Lago de Izabal”
- Swedish: “Departamento de Izabal”
- Swedish: “Lago de Izabal”
- Ukrainian: “Ісабаль”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Izabal”
- Welsh: “Llyn Izabal”
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