Cami Lake

Fagnano Lake (Spanish: Lago Fagnano), also called Lake Cami (Spanish: Lago Cami), is a lake located on the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, and shared by Argentina and Chile. The 645 km2 lake runs east–west for about 98 kilometres, of which 72.5 km (606 km2) belong to the Argentine Tierra del Fuego Province, and only 13.5 km (39 km2) belong to the Chilean Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region. It has a maximum depth of 449 meters. The southern bank is steep compared to the northern, and expands in a considerably wide and flat piedmont from which both levels of the plateaus can be appreciated. From its western end, the Azopardo River drains towards the Almirantazgo Fjord. On its eastern end is the town of Tolhuin. The lake is located in a pull-apart basin developed along the Magallanes–Fagnano Fault zone.[2]

Cami Lake
Fagnano Lake
Location of the lake in Argentina.
Location of the lake in Argentina.
Cami Lake
Fagnano Lake
LocationUshuaia Department / Tolhuin Department, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina / Tierra del Fuego Province, Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region, Chile
Coordinates54°32′36″S 67°59′00″W
Primary outflowsAzopardo River
Catchment area3,481 km (2,163 mi)
Basin countriesArgentina, Chile
Max. length98 km (61 mi)
Surface area645 km2 (249 sq mi)
Average depth193.8 m (636 ft)
Max. depth449 m (1,473 ft)
Water volume125 km3 (30 cu mi)
Shore length1269 km (167 mi)
Surface elevation140 m (460 ft)[1]
SettlementsTolhuin
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

According to a Selk'nam myth the lake was created alongside the Strait of Magellan and Beagle Channel in places where slingshots fell on earth during Taiyín's fight with a witch who was said to have "retained the waters and the foods".[3]

Fagnano Lake, from north to south, in its Chilean part

References
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  1. "Sistema Nacional Argentino de Información Hídrica". Archived from the original on 2009-08-08. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
  2. Lodolo, Emanuele; Menichetti, Marco; Bartole, Roberto; Ben‐Avraham, Zvi; Tassone, Alejandro; Lippai, Horacio (2003). "Magallanes-Fagnano continental transform fault (Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America)". Tectonics. 22 (6): 1076. doi:10.1029/2003TC001500.
  3. Montecino Aguirre, Sonia (2015). "Canal de Beagle". Mitos de Chile: Enciclopedia de seres, apariciones y encantos (in Spanish). Catalonia. p. 125. ISBN 978-956-324-375-8.
  • Niemeyer, Hans; Cereceda, Pilar (1983). Geografía de Chile — Tomo VIII: Hidrografía (1º edición, Santiago de Chile: Instituto Geográfico Militar ed.).


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