Lake · Argentina · Chile
Palena/General Vintter Lake
Lake
- Area
- 139km²
- Average depth
- 83m
- Elevation
- 927m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 114km
- Volume
- 11.5km³
Palena/General Vintter Lake is a lake in Argentina. It covers 139 km². On average it is 83 m deep. Its surface lies 927 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Palena/General Vintter Lake?
The water is warmest in February, around 11 °C at the surface, and coldest in August, around 5 °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 17 °C on average in February and 2 °C in July. The driest month is February (49 mm of rain), the wettest June (139 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (140 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 | 10 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 59 | 10 | 10.9 | 22 |
| February | 11 | 12 | 17 | 5 | 49 | 8 | 10.3 | 19 |
| March | 11 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 67 | 11 | 8.1 | 18 |
| April | 10 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 72 | 13 | 6.1 | 19 |
| May | 8 | 9 | 6 | -1 | 114 | 16 | 3.8 | 18 |
| June | 6 | 7 | 2 | -3 | 139 | 18 | 3.1 | 20 |
| July | 5 | 6 | 2 | -4 | 103 | 16 | 3.8 | 18 |
| August | 5 | 5 | 3 | -3 | 94 | 15 | 4.7 | 20 |
| September | 5 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 56 | 12 | 6.3 | 19 |
| October | 6 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 79 | 12 | 7.7 | 21 |
| November | 7 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 76 | 12 | 9.4 | 22 |
| December | 9 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 53 | 10 | 10.4 | 23 |
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 11 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 496 km² of land.
- About 32 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 2.7 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Palena/General Vintter Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- —viewpoints
- 1hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Cabañas Vinter
- —fishing spots
- —restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Esquel Brigadier Antonio Parodi International Airport (EQS), 118 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 | 16.0 | 16.7 | 13.7 | 9.6 | 5.7 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 3.4 | 6.6 | 9.6 | 12.3 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | −0.1 | −1.1 | +2.7 | +1.5 | +1.4 | −0.7 | −2.2 | −1.1 | ±0.0 | +1.1 | +2.2 | +0.1 |
| 2021 | +1.2 | +5.1 | +4.2 | +2.5 | +2.0 | +0.4 | +1.9 | +1.4 | +1.8 | +1.1 | +1.3 | +4.6 |
| 2022 | +1.7 | +1.8 | −0.9 | −1.1 | −0.4 | −1.0 | −1.9 | −1.7 | +0.3 | +0.7 | +4.1 | +0.8 |
| 2023 | +3.0 | +1.1 | +0.6 | +1.3 | +0.5 | +0.7 | +0.2 | −0.3 | −1.4 | +0.3 | −1.4 | +1.1 |
| 2024 | +3.1 | +4.0 | −0.8 | −1.1 | −2.7 | −0.1 | −0.3 | +0.7 | −1.3 | +3.1 | −0.8 | +1.4 |
| 2025 | +2.4 | −0.7 | +0.7 | +0.4 | −1.0 | −0.6 | +1.2 | +2.1 | +0.8 | −0.5 | +2.2 | −1.2 |
+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 (Q766498) · 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.
