Lake Zaravina, Delvinaki, Pogoni, Ioannina, Epirus, Greece, Europe

Lake Zaravina(s), also known as Nezeros or Nizeros, is a natural lake in the Prefecture of Ioannina and specifically in the province of Pogoni (Community of Zaravina) at an altitude of 458 m. It is one of the deepest lakes in Greece with a maximum depth of 31.5 m. while its surface amounts to 0.301 sq. km. It is located opposite E.O. Ioannina-Kakavias and is 45 km from the nearest urban center, Ioannina and 14 km from the Greek-Albanian border, while the nearest settlements are the villages of Zaravina at a distance of 4 km and Sitaria at a distance of 5.5 km. Reference point for the area both because of its natural beauty and because of its ecological importance, it came to the Greek State after a long legal dispute, only in 2009[1]. It has been declared as a landscape of special natural beauty since August 1983 (Government Gazette B 572/04-10-1983), while later it joined the European network of natural protection together with the neighboring forest of Meropi, the valley of the Gormos River and Oreokastro NATURA-2000 environment, with a high protection priority and code GR2130010. The name Zaravina comes from the name of the village of the same name which in the past was located downstream of the lake.