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Lake Smaller Ritsa

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Basin countries
  
Georgia

Max. width
  
290 m (950 ft)

Max. depth
  
76 m (249 ft)

Area
  
2.95 km²

Width
  
290 m

Max. length
  
530 m (1,740 ft)

Surface area
  
2.95 km (1.14 sq mi)

Surface elevation
  
1,235 m

Length
  
530 m

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Lake Smaller Ritsa (Georgian: პატარა რიწა), located in north-western Georgia, is a lake in the Caucasus Mountains, surrounded by mixed mountain forests and subalpine meadows. The lake located at the Pshegishkha (2217 m) mountain bottom at the height of 1235 m, to the east from Gagra ridge in a river Iupshara basin in 5 kilometers to the west from the lake Big Ritsa. Feeds by snow, rain and underground water. The length of the Smaller Ritsa is 530 m and the width is 290 m. Maximum depth of the lake is 76 m. Surface area is 2,95 km². In the lake lives trout.

References

Lake Smaller Ritsa Wikipedia