Photo: Agapi2010 · CC BY-SA 4.0Lake Saltini, also called Salini, is a very shallow salt or brackish coastal lake of about 210 hectares in the northern part of the Sterna peninsula, south of Aktio airport, at the north-western tip of Aetolia-Acarnania. It forms a Natura 2000 site with nearby Lake Voulkaria.
Nature
A narrow fringe of reeds and bulrushes surrounds it, with patches of rush, and its wide, shallow, muddy shores make it an important resting place for migrating birds, though their numbers have fallen sharply in recent years. Overgrazing, farm run-off, illegal hunting and the noise of aircraft from the airport all weigh on it.
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Tips
The lake lies close to Aktio airport. Migration seasons are the time to come, with binoculars.
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Sources & data
- Greece's 2022 Water Framework Directive reporting to the EEA: lake (LW) and transitional (TW) water bodies, field cArea, European Environment Agency (WISE WFD), reported by Greece, 2022
- OpenStreetMap: Λίμνη Σαλτίνη (way 275631807), OpenStreetMap contributors
- Greek Wikipedia: Λίμνη Σαλτίνη, Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata: lake-saltini (Q24924215), Wikimedia Foundation
- Limnes Voulkaria kai Saltini (GR2310006), Filotis, National Technical University of Athens