Lake · Chile · Argentina
Cochrane/Pueyrredón Lake
Lake in Capitán Prat Province, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
- Area
- 299km²
- Average depth
- 102m
- Elevation
- 152m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 239km
- Volume
- 30.4km³
Cochrane/Pueyrredón Lake is a lake in Chile. It covers 299 km². On average it is 102 m deep. Its surface lies 152 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Cochrane/Pueyrredón Lake?
The water is warmest in February, around 12 °C at the surface, and coldest in August, around 7 °C. Even at its warmest, the surface stays below 17 °C on average: this is cold water.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 16 °C on average in February and 0 °C in July. The driest month is January (22 mm of rain), the wettest May (50 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (93 readings). Shallow bays and beaches are often warmer.
From above
The whole lake from space
Month by month
The year at the lake, month by month
Not a forecast: these are averages over many years. Water is the 2013–2021 average; air, rain, sun and wind are the 1991–2020 average.
Water: 2013–2021 averageClimate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 22 | 5 | 11.7 | 24 |
| February | 12 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 25 | 5 | 10.5 | 21 |
| March | 12 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 28 | 6 | 8.5 | 20 |
| April | 12 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 38 | 8 | 6.5 | 19 |
| May | 10 | 11 | 4 | -3 | 50 | 10 | 4.3 | 16 |
| June | 8 | 9 | 1 | -6 | 49 | 11 | 3.3 | 16 |
| July | 7 | 8 | 0 | -7 | 38 | 9 | 3.8 | 14 |
| August | 7 | 7 | 2 | -5 | 40 | 8 | 5.2 | 17 |
| September | 7 | 7 | 6 | -3 | 25 | 6 | 7.1 | 18 |
| October | 8 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 39 | 7 | 9.3 | 21 |
| November | 9 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 33 | 7 | 10.9 | 24 |
| December | 10 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 28 | 6 | 11.3 | 25 |
Water: LakeTEMP (Landsat 8, 2013–2021). Air, rain, sun and wind: NASA POWER, 1991–2020 averages. A rainy day has at least 1 mm of rain. Sunshine hours are derived from measured solar radiation.
Size & depth
How big, how deep
- On average, water stays in the lake for about 27 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 2,570 km² of land.
- About 36 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.9 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Cochrane/Pueyrredón Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 4beaches and swimming spots
Playa Vidal
- 4campsites
El Tio, Free official camp site, Free unofficial camp site
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- 6ferry piers
Río Brown, Bahía Silva, Las Acolleradas, El Montoso, Buena Vista and 1 more
- 7viewpoints
Mirador, Lago Cochrane and 5 more
- —hotels, B&Bs and chalets
- —fishing spots
- —restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Perito Moreno Jalil Hamer Airport (PMQ), 115 km in a straight line.
OpenStreetMap is built by volunteers: when a number is low, it may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
Recent years
How each month compared
Afternoon high on the shore. The first row is the reference, the 1991–2020 average in °C; the years below show the difference from it: warmer in orange, cooler in blue.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991–2020 average | 15.8 | 16.2 | 12.7 | 8.6 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 5.7 | 9.0 | 12.0 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | −0.2 | −0.8 | +2.4 | +1.0 | +1.4 | −0.6 | −3.2 | −1.2 | ±0.0 | +0.8 | +2.3 | +0.4 |
| 2021 | +0.3 | +3.4 | +2.4 | +2.1 | +1.1 | +0.8 | +2.3 | +1.0 | +1.5 | +0.8 | +2.1 | +4.4 |
| 2022 | +0.8 | +0.9 | −0.9 | −1.0 | −0.1 | −0.2 | −1.1 | +0.5 | +0.8 | +0.5 | +3.8 | +0.7 |
| 2023 | +2.0 | −0.7 | −1.3 | +0.4 | +0.8 | −0.7 | −0.6 | ±0.0 | −1.6 | −0.3 | −1.1 | +1.8 |
| 2024 | +2.0 | +1.6 | −1.6 | −0.8 | −2.0 | −1.4 | +0.3 | +1.0 | −0.9 | +2.7 | −0.2 | +1.9 |
| 2025 | +1.5 | −2.7 | −0.2 | −0.1 | −0.9 | −0.8 | +1.0 | +1.4 | +0.9 | −0.9 | +2.7 | −0.8 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
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| Outline, area, depth, volume | HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0 |
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| Water temperature and ice | LakeTEMP v1 (Korver et al. 2024), Landsat 8 2013–2021 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Air, rain, sun, wind | NASA POWER, 1991–2020 · public domain |
| Names and description | Wikidata (Q728467) · CC0 |
| Around the shore | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every figure is an average or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
