Lac_d'Espingo

Lac d'Espingo

Lac d'Espingo

French reservoir in the Pyrénées

Lac d'Espingo is a lake in Haute-Garonne, Pyrénées, France. At an elevation of 1882 m, its surface area is 0.076 km².[citation needed] In 1836, James David Forbes reported it had mica similar to the mica palmier in granite near Bagnères-de-Luchon.[1] In 1940, Henri Gaussen reported the lake sat nearly 2,000 meters above sea level and had 1.5 meters of rainfall per year.[2]

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  1. [1]
    Forbes, James D. (1836). "On the Temperatures and Geological Relations of Certain Hot Springs, Particularly Those of the Pyrenees; And on the Verification of Thermometers". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 126: 594. ISSN 0261-0523. JSTOR 108045.
  2. [2]
    Gaussen, Henri (1940). "Les forêts du pays de Luchon". Revue géographique des Pyrénées et du Sud-Ouest. Sud-Ouest Européen. 11 (2): 127. doi:10.3406/rgpso.1940.1148.


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