Lac d'Espingo

{{Short description|French reservoir in the Pyrénées}}

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| location = Haute-Garonne, Pyrénées

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| elevation = {{convert|1882|m|abbr=on}}

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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|date=July 2023}} In 1836, James David Forbes reported it had mica similar to the mica palmier in granite near Bagnères-de-Luchon.{{cite journal |last=Forbes |first=James D. |author-link=James David Forbes |title=On the Temperatures and Geological Relations of Certain Hot Springs, Particularly Those of the Pyrenees; And on the Verification of Thermometers |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |date=1836 |volume=126 |page=594 |jstor=108045 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/108045 |issn=0261-0523}} In 1940, Henri Gaussen reported the lake sat nearly 2,000 meters above sea level and had 1.5 meters of rainfall per year.{{cite journal |last=Gaussen |first=Henri |author-link=Henri Gaussen |title=Les forêts du pays de Luchon |journal=Revue géographique des Pyrénées et du Sud-Ouest. Sud-Ouest Européen |date=1940 |volume=11 |issue=2 |page=127 |doi=10.3406/rgpso.1940.1148 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/rgpso_0035-3221_1940_num_11_2_1148?q=%22Lac+d%27Espingo%22}}