Lake Prespa
Lake Prespa
- Country:
- North Macedonia
- Site number:
- 726
- Area:
- 18,920.0 ha
- Designation date:
- 04-04-1995
- Coordinates:
- 40°55'59"N 21°00'59"E
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Lake Prespa. 03/05/95; 18,920 ha; 40°56'N 021°01'E. Strictly Protected Nature Reserve; Ornithological Reserve. A Pliocene Lake (2-3 million years old), providing important feeding areas for large numbers of the Pelicans that breed nearby in Greece. The site includes cultivated land, meadows, pastures, reedbeds, and forests. Commercial and recreational fishing and conservation education are the only human activities. There is a visitors' center at the site. Ramsar site no. 726. Most recent RIS information: 1998.
Administrative region:
Resen
National legal designation:
- ornithological reserve - reserve EZERANI
Last publication date:
01-01-1998
Ramsar Information Sheet (RIS)
- MK726RIS.pdf
- MK726map_over.pdf
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Additional reports and documents
Taxonomic lists of plant and animal species occurring in the site