Photo: IvanOS · CC BY-SA 3.0Lapovac is a reservoir between Našice and Markovac Našički, about 3 km from the centre of Našice, and the town’s favourite place for an outing. Its shores are landscaped for picnics, fishing and swimming.
How it formed
The lake was made in 1993 by damming the Lapovac stream, which also protects the villages downstream from floods. It is long and narrow and fairly shallow.
Nature
The lake is stocked with fish and looked after by the local angling club, Šaran Našice.
Visit
Getting there
Nearest settlement: Našice
Swimming
No reliable information
Tips
Lapovac is the place to picnic, fish and swim near Našice. It hosts sports events, among them a European kayaking championship and angling competitions, and carp anglers rate it highly.
In Našice itself, the Pejačević castle, set in an English landscape park, houses the town museum with rooms on the composer Dora Pejačević, and the Franciscan monastery by the church of St Anthony of Padua keeps a library of rare books.
Nearby lakes
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Sources & data
- Croatia's 2022 Water Framework Directive reporting to the EEA: lake water bodies (SWB, category LW), field cArea, European Environment Agency (WISE WFD), reported by Croatia, 2022
- OpenStreetMap: Lapovac (way 17045285), OpenStreetMap contributors
- Croatian Wikipedia: Lapovac (jezero), Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata: Lake Lapovac (Q6476572), Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia: Lake Lapovac, Wikimedia Foundation
- Našice, Le Routard