Lac de Vassivière
The lac de Vassivière or Vassivière Lake, one of France's largest artificial lakes, is a large man-made reservoir of about 10 square kilometres. It is situated on the Plateau de Millevaches in the départements of Creuse and Haute-Vienne.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Reservoir
- Description: lake in Limousin, France
- Also known as: “lac de Vassiviere”, “lac de Vassivière”, “Vassiviere Lake”, and “Vassivière Lake”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Barrage de Vassivière and Île de Vassivière.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beaumont-du-Lac and Royère-de-Vassivière.
Beaumont-du-Lac
Village
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Beaumont-du-Lac is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. Beaumont-du-Lac is situated 5 km south of Lac de Vassivière.
Royère-de-Vassivière
Village
Photo: Langladure, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Royère-de-Vassivière is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France. Royère-de-Vassivière is situated 5 km northeast of Lac de Vassivière.
Peyrat-le-Château
Village
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Peyrat-le-Château is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. Inhabitants are known as Peyratois or Castel Peyratois in French. Peyrat-le-Château is situated 6 km west of Lac de Vassivière.
Lac de Vassivière
- Category: body of water
- Location: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Lac de Vassivière” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “llac de Vacivièra”
- Cebuano: “Lac de Vassivière”
- Chinese: “瓦西维耶尔湖”
- Dutch: “Lac de Vassiviere”
- Dutch: “Lac de Vassivière”
- Finnish: “Lac de Vassivière”
- French: “lac de Vassivière”
- French: “Lac de Vassivière”
- German: “Lac de Vassivière”
- Hebrew: “אגם ואסיבייר”
- Italian: “lago di Vassivière”
- Japanese: “ヴァシヴィエール湖”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vassivière-demningen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Estanh de Vaciviera”
- Spanish: “Lac de Vassivière”
- Spanish: “Lago de Vassivière”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bois de Crozat and Gare d’Eymoutiers-Vassivière.
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