Loch Awe

Loch Awe [ lɒxɔ ː ] ( Scottish Gaelic: Loch Obha ') is a freshwater lake in Scotland. It is in the unitary authority Argyll and Bute and has the typical elongated shape of a lake during the Ice Age glacial origin. It is 37 km long, but on average only about 1 km wide. The volume of water includes 1.2 km ³. Judging by the size of the water surface area of ​​approximately 38.5 km ² Loch Awe is the third largest lake in Scotland.

Loch Awe runs approximately from southwest to northeast and is parallel to the salt water lochs Loch Etive and Loch Fyne. It is fed by numerous rivers and streams. The largest of these are River Orchy and River street. Smaller, mostly very short streams flow on the entire shoreline in Loch Awe. Run the water from the surrounding, to the many places steep terrain from the lake. In total an area of 780 km ² drained into Loch Awe. The outflow of water is at the northern end of the lake on the Awe and Loch Etive to the west into the Atlantic.

On Loch Awe are hydroelectric power plants: a hydroelectric power plant, which is operated by the awe and a pumped storage power plant below Ben Cruachan. For the latter, an artificial storage reservoir was built in the hills.

Under anglers Loch Awe is famous for its trout. Also salmon pull up the hole. On the islands of the lake ( Innis Chonnell, Inishail and Innis Chonan ) are several castle ruins. However, the most famous ruins are those of Kilchurn Castles, is not located on an island, but on the north shore of the lake. Also, some Iron Age Crannogs ( artificial islands ) are detected.