Lake Baitone

About

Lake Baitone is an artificial lake in Italy, located at an elevation of 2,281 meters in the Baitone basin, at the foot of Corno Baitone, in the Adamello mountain group.

It is the largest of the numerous lakes found in the Baitone basin, a valley of glacial origin, a tributary of the Malga Valley, and it is also the fourth largest lake in the entire Val Camonica, surpassed in size by Lake Arno, Lake Pantano dell'Avio, and Lake Avio.

It was first named by Baron Luigi Alberto Guiscardo, a French general and cartographer, as "Lake of Sonico".

The dam containing it was built, along with part of the significant hydroelectric system connected to it, in 1930 and is still used for this purpose. Around it, several service structures were built, including the houses where the dam keeper and Enel workers lived for the maintenance and management of the plant. One of these, decommissioned for several decades, has been recovered and currently serves as an alpine hut, the Rifugio Baitone.

The dam, of the gravity type, is 230 meters long and 38 meters high, with a total volume of 46,600 cubic meters

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