Lake Gistova

Lake Gistova, also known as Drakolimni, is a small lake located in Greece alongside the Greek-Albanian border. It is the highest alpine lake in Greece, and one of the highest in the Balkans. It is located at an elevation of about, on the Gramos mountain, and has a regular elliptical shape. The maximum depth is around 4m. The lake gets the water from the melting of ice-snow in a caldera on the tip of a pike of the mountain complex, and it is free of ice for about four months of the year. The newt species Ichthyosaura alpestris veluchiensis inhabits the lake.