Étang de Vaccarès

The Etang de Vaccarès is a shallow salty Strandsee in the center of the southern French Camargue landscape. Its size (about 6500 acres ) and depth ( average of 50 inches, rarely more than 2 meters ) vary depending on the weather situation.

The lake offers many migratory birds habitat and food, and is also home to the characteristic of the Camargue Flamingos. Since 1927 he is part of a 13,117 hectare nature reserve (French Réserve nationale de Camargue ), which is in turn since 1970 in a nearly complete the entire Camargue nature reserve.

The lake is said to be the popular belief on the whereabouts of the fabled bête du Vaccarès, panähnlichen a hybrid creature of man and goat. This mythological background formed the basis of a published in 1926 in a French edition of Provence - narrative ( La Provence bestio Dou Vacares, French La bête du Vaccarès ) of the Provencal poet Joseph d' Arbaud.

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