Lake Smaller Ritsa

Coordinates: 43°28′31″N 40°30′11″E / 43.47528°N 40.50306°E / 43.47528; 40.50306
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Lake Smaller Ritsa
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Lake Smaller Ritsa is located in Abkhazia
Lake Smaller Ritsa
Lake Smaller Ritsa
Coordinates43°28′31″N 40°30′11″E / 43.47528°N 40.50306°E / 43.47528; 40.50306
Basin countriesAbkhazia
Max. length530 m (1,740 ft)
Max. width290 m (950 ft)
Surface area.095 km2 (0.037 sq mi)
Max. depth76 m (249 ft)
Surface elevation1,235 m (4,052 ft)
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Lake Smaller Ritsa, located in Abkhazia, is a lake in the Caucasus Mountains, surrounded by mixed mountain forests and subalpine meadows.

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The lake located at the Pshegishkha (2217 m) mountain bottom at the height of 1235 m,[1] to the east from Gagra Ridge in the Iupshara River basin, 5 kilometers to the west from the lake Big Ritsa. Feeds by snow, rain and underground water. The length of the Smaller Ritsa is 530 m and the width is 290 m. Maximum depth of the lake is 76 m. Surface area is 0,095 km2 (37 sq mi). In the lake lives trout.

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  1. ^ "Lake Smaller Ritsa" (in Georgian). Wikimapia.org. Retrieved 2012-07-30.