Lac de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho
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| image = Lac de Villeneuve de la raho.jpg
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| location = Pyrénées-Orientales
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| inflow = canal de Perpignan
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| basin_countries = France
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| area = {{convert|2.01|km2|abbr=on}}
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| volume = {{convert|17.9|e6m3|abbr=on}}
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Lac de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho is a lake in the town of Villeneuve-de-la-Raho in Pyrénées-Orientales, France.
The lake lies in a deflation pan. That is a natural, circular, shallow depression caused by the removal of fairly loose, mainly Pliocene, sediment by wind erosion, during very cold, windy phases of the Quaternary period. It is the largest of a number of such deflation pans in this area.Calvet, Marc; Delmas, Magali; Gunnell, Yanni; Laumonier, Bernard. 2022. Geology and Landscapes of the Eastern Pyrenees: A Field Guide with Excursions (pp. 323-324). Springer International Publishing. Kindle Edition.[https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/carte?c=2.902,42.631&z=0.0001&l0=GEOGRAPHICALGRIDSYSTEMS.MAPS::GEOPORTAIL:OGC:WMTS%281%29&permalink=yes Topographic map] on Géoportail.
History
The former lake of Villeneuve-de-la-Raho had a size of {{convert|150|ha|abbr=out}}. Considered useless, it was dried in 1854, and the land was then used for agriculture. Recovered by the General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales, it was filled with water and became a lake once again in 1977.{{66 PHPC}}
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