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Country
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country of rivers, and many of its lakes were made by them: karst springs, travertine barriers and dams on the Neretva, the Drina and the Vrbas.
Near Jajce, the two Pliva lakes are separated by travertine barriers, with the old wooden watermills of the Mlinčići between them. In the Neretva basin, the reservoirs of Jablanica and Rama lie between steep limestone mountains, and in the high Dinarides small glacial lakes on Zelengora and Treskavica reward a day's hike.
Lake season runs from late spring to early autumn; the mountain lakes are best reached in summer.
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Photo: Whitepixels · CC0Bosnia and Herzegovina · Central Bosnia
Veliko Plivsko Jezero, or Great Pliva Lake, is a natural lake on the Pliva river in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the municipality of Jajce. It is the largest of the three lakes on the Pliva, which lie one after…
Photo: Martin Brož · CC BY 3.0Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina
Karst · natural
Photo: Ante Perkovic · CC BY-SA 3.0Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina
Reservoir · artificial
Regions
37 lakes
Photo: Whitepixels · CC0Bosnia and Herzegovina · Central Bosnia
Dam-regulated, Karst · natural, regulated
Photo: Martin Brož · CC BY 3.0Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina
Karst · natural
Photo: Ante Perkovic · CC BY-SA 3.0Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina
Reservoir · artificial
Photo: Julian Nyča · CC BY-SA 3.0Bosnia and Herzegovina · Northeastern Bosnia
Reservoir · artificial
Photo: Petkovic Boris · CC BY-SA 4.0Bosnia and Herzegovina · Zelengora
Glacial · natural
Photo: Smooth_O (talk · contribs) · CC BY 3.0Bosnia and Herzegovina (Drina Valley) · Serbia
Reservoir · artificial
Photo: Julian Nyča · CC BY 3.0Bosnia and Herzegovina (Drina Valley) · Serbia
Reservoir · artificial
Photo: Egzoftalmus · CC BY-SA 4.0Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzegovina) · Montenegro (Central Montenegro)
Reservoir · artificial
Photo: Zoran Pravdić · Public domainBosnia and Herzegovina · Western Bosnia
Reservoir · artificial
Photo: rejflinger · CC BY-SA 2.0Bosnia and Herzegovina · Central Bosnia
Glacial · natural
Photo: Martin Brož · CC BY 3.0Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina
Reservoir · artificial
Photo: Frfincon · CC BY-SA 3.0Bosnia and Herzegovina · Central Bosnia
Glacial · natural
Activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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