Silver Lake or Srebrno jezero (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ??????) is an oxbow lake along the right Danube bank in the Brani?evo region in eastern Serbia, near the town of Veliko Gradi?te. It is a popular tourist resort.
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GeographyEdit
The lake itself is in the broad, low valley of the Danube, but the neighboring hills rise up from 282 meters on the north (Gorica hill) to 362 meters on the south (Lipova?a hill), while the entire western part of the valley is enclosed by the elongated hill of Veliko brdo and its highest peak of Anatema (324 m). The mouth of the river Pek into the Danube, known by its inverse flow during the high water levels, is just south of the lake. Historical sites of the medieval city-fortresses of Ram and Golubac also in the vicinity of the lake, so as the springs of "Hajdu?ka voda" (Hajduk's water).
Silver Lake is an arm of the Danube on its right bank. With the main river bed of the Danube it engulfes the marshy ada (river island) of Ostrovo. On both points which connect the lake to the Danube it was dammed and bridged in 1971 by the Veliko Gradi?te-Zatonje road which also crosses the island. Other settlements on the lake are Biskuplje and Kisiljevo.
Silver Lake has an irregular arch shape, it is 14 kilometers long, up to 300 meters wide and covers an area of 4 km². It is situated at the altitude of 70 meters and deep as much as 8 meters. The water is clear due to the lack of pollution and the natural filtration of the water through many sand dunes. The lake is abundant in fish, including white amur, carp, catfish, pike, perch and other freshwater whitefish.
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EconomyEdit
The lake has been a popular holiday and fishing destination for decades, but recently experienced visitor's boom, attracting tourists from all over Central Serbia, despite lack of major accommodations. The lake has one hotel (Srebrno jezero), several restaurant-boardinghouses, a weekend-settlement and the largest car camping park in Serbia.
As a result of the lake's growing popularity, it has been since recently advertised as "Serbian sea", since Serbia is landlocked. A major plans for turning Silver Lake from the resort of the middle class into a more elite place were announced in July 2007. In the next seven years it is planned to build three hotels, congressional halls, pools (both opened and covered), golf courses, cycling paths, shopping malls and marina. The tennis courts have been constructed earlier this year.
ReferencesEdit
- Atlas Srbije (2007), MONDE NEUF, Belgrade; ISBN 978-86-86809-05-6
- nedeljnik Vreme, Beograd (2008-07-24). "Srebrno jezero--turisti?ka budu?nost Srbije" (PDF). Vreme.
External linksEdit
- Silver lake tourist portal
- Srebrno jezero official site
- Silver lake Serbia Travel Guide
- Srebrno jezero - Kalinovcic
See alsoEdit
- (English)List of lakes in Serbia
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