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Herzegovina

Herzegovina is the southern and smaller of the two main geographical regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with an area of around 12,188 km². It has no strictly defined administrative borders today.

The lakes include the Neretva reservoirs Jablanica, Grabovica, Salakovac and Mostar, Rama Lake, the glacial Boračko jezero, Blidinje Lake in the nature park of the same name, the lakes of Hutovo Blato, and Bileća Lake, which is shared with Montenegro.

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Photo: Martin Brož · CC BY 3.0

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina

Blidinje Lake

Blidinje Lake is an alpine lake on the karst Blidinje plateau, in Blidinje Nature Park between Jablanica, Tomislavgrad and Posušje, and the largest of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is very shallow, and its size changes strongly with…

4.75 square kilometresarea
1,179 metreselevation
3 metresmax. depth
Hiking
Photo: Egzoftalmus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzegovina) · Montenegro (Central Montenegro)

Bileća Lake

Reservoir · artificial

27.06 square kilometresarea
383 metreselevation

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Photo: Martin Brož · CC BY 3.0

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina

Blidinje Lake

Karst · natural

4.75 square kilometresarea
1,179 metreselevation
3 metresmax. depth
Hiking
Photo: Egzoftalmus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzegovina) · Montenegro (Central Montenegro)

Bileća Lake

Reservoir · artificial

27.06 square kilometresarea
383 metreselevation
Photo: Martin Brož · CC BY 3.0

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina

Rama Lake

Reservoir · artificial

15.3 square kilometresarea
595 metreselevation
Photo: Ma▀▄Ga · CC BY 3.0

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina

Škrka

Karst · natural

0.09 square kilometresarea
Birdwatching
Photo: Julian Nyča · CC BY-SA 3.0

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina

Klinje

Reservoir · artificial

0.25 square kilometresarea
1,025 metreselevation
Photo: Vitek · CC BY-SA 3.0

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina

Orah

Karst · natural

0.16 square kilometresarea
Photo: MaGa · CC BY-SA 3.0

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina

Vrutak

Reservoir · artificial

0.66 square kilometresarea
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