Place Paron Lake

The most wonderful lakes in the Cordillera Blanca

Inserted: 17.09.2018
Author: Edgar Zambrano © gigaplaces.com

Lake Paron 4200m asl is the largest lake in the Cordillera Blanca, on the Peruvian Andes, 32km east from the city Caraz. Its nested and surrounded by several snow peaks specially by Pyramid 5885masl from where the Paramount picture company logo was taken. Paron lake formed as a natural reservoir has a catchment area of 44.3km2, it is 3.7km long from east to west and average of 7000m width from north to south, the original depth was about 75m, but today the level was lowered 15m …

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