Lake · Chile
Ranco Lake
Lake in Los Rios Region
- Area
- 427km²
- Max depth
- 199m
- Average depth
- 81m
- Elevation
- 64m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 188km
- Volume
- 34.4km³
Ranco Lake is a lake in Chile. It covers 427 km². On average it is 81 m deep, and 199 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 64 m above sea level.
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The water
Water temperature
There is no reliable satellite record of the water temperature for this lake yet.
On the shore, afternoons reach 23 °C on average in February and 8 °C in July. The driest month is February (35 mm of rain), the wettest June (166 mm).
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.
Climate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | — | — | 22 | 10 | 36 | 6 | 11.2 | 8 |
| February | — | — | 23 | 10 | 35 | 6 | 10.1 | 8 |
| March | — | — | 20 | 9 | 52 | 9 | 8.0 | 8 |
| April | — | — | 16 | 6 | 77 | 12 | 5.4 | 8 |
| May | — | — | 12 | 5 | 129 | 16 | 3.3 | 8 |
| June | — | — | 9 | 3 | 166 | 19 | 2.1 | 9 |
| July | — | — | 8 | 2 | 159 | 18 | 2.8 | 9 |
| August | — | — | 10 | 3 | 141 | 17 | 3.6 | 9 |
| September | — | — | 12 | 4 | 84 | 13 | 5.8 | 8 |
| October | — | — | 14 | 5 | 82 | 13 | 6.8 | 8 |
| November | — | — | 17 | 7 | 64 | 10 | 8.4 | 8 |
| December | — | — | 20 | 9 | 48 | 8 | 10.1 | 8 |
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 6.1 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 3,593 km² of land.
- About 177 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 2.6 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Ranco Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 23beaches and swimming spots
Playa Huequecura, Playa Puerto Llifen, Playa Epulafquén, Playa Puerto Nuevo, Playa San Pedro and 18 more
- 20campsites
Camping Playa Epulafquen, Camping Riñinahue, Camping la Estancia, Camping-Picnic Vista Hermosa, Camping Mamá Ana and 15 more
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 2marinas and slipways
- 1ferry piers
- 9viewpoints
Mirador Los Manios, Mirador Lago Ranco, Mirador Pitreño, Mirador Playa San Pedro, Mirador Illahuapi and 4 more
- 36hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hospedaje Los Pinos, Pewma, Cabañas Lafquintue, Donde Uli, Ruka and 31 more
- —fishing spots
- 37restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Futrono13,736 people
- Lago Ranco1,984 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Cañal Bajo Carlos Hott Siebert Airport (ZOS), 62 km in a straight line.
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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 | 22.4 | 22.9 | 20.1 | 15.6 | 12.1 | 9.0 | 8.4 | 9.6 | 12.1 | 14.2 | 16.7 | 19.7 |
| 2020 | +1.4 | +0.4 | +2.4 | +1.1 | +0.9 | −0.7 | −0.9 | −0.4 | +0.4 | +0.9 | +1.3 | +0.3 |
| 2021 | +0.8 | +3.8 | +3.8 | +1.8 | +1.1 | +0.6 | +0.8 | +0.8 | +0.8 | +1.8 | +3.0 | +6.2 |
| 2022 | +1.8 | +2.2 | −0.7 | −1.5 | ±0.0 | ±0.0 | −1.0 | +0.5 | +0.2 | +1.7 | +6.6 | +4.5 |
| 2023 | +3.7 | +2.8 | +1.3 | +2.8 | +1.4 | +1.6 | +0.8 | +0.1 | −1.2 | +0.2 | −0.8 | +4.0 |
| 2024 | +4.7 | +4.4 | ±0.0 | −0.5 | −2.6 | +0.3 | +0.2 | +0.7 | −1.7 | +4.1 | +0.5 | +3.5 |
| 2025 | +3.4 | +0.9 | +0.6 | −0.4 | −1.6 | −0.3 | +1.8 | +2.3 | +0.6 | +0.2 | +2.5 | +1.2 |
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ArgentinaAbout these numbers
| Outline, area, depth, volume | HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|
| 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 (Q1800398) · 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.
