Red Lake - Romania // The mountain dropped on the lake?
Channel: ITravel Drones
Date: 2017-09-01

Check my Redbubble Shop: https://rdbl.co/3AETLIZ Red Lake (also known as Lake Ghilcoş) is a natural dam lake formed by the collapse of a slope due to the earthquake of January 23, 1838, 18.45 hours. 6.9 magnitudes, intensity VIII, at the foot of the Hasmasul Mare Mountain, near the Bicaz Gorges, at a distance of 26 km from Gheorgheni, in the county of Harghita. At the last measurements made in 1987, its dimensions are: the lake is situated on a perimeter of 2,830 m, the area is 114,676 m² and the volume of water that accumulates is 587,503 m³. The lake was formed at an altitude of 983 m, in a depression with a predominant subalpine climate.
Its name comes from the Red Pine that crosses red layers with oxides and iron hydroxides. In German, it is called Mördersee (Lake Killer); In Hungarian, gyilkos = the killer, because, according to legend, the landfall would have covered a village, killing both its inhabitants and animals. The collected water was red enough so that the name of the lake became both Red Lake and Lake Ucigaş. Red Lake is situated between Şuhardul Mic, Şuhardul Mare on the north side, Podu Calului Mountains on the southwestern side, Licaş and the Kis-Havas Mountains in the north-west, Csíki-Bükk in the north-east and Mount Ucigas in the eastern part. The lake is fed by four large streams and another 12 temporary water courses, of which the most important are Verescheul (Red), Licoşul, Suhardul, Oii, The killer.

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