List of lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina take , which is a little more than 0.12% of the total surface area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Buško Blato is the largest lake, its size being 56.7 km2. Blidinje lake is the largest natural mountain lake in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with surface area varying between , and Buško Blato lake with its size of is the biggest artificial accumulation in Bosnia and Herzegovina; this lake was made from accumulation of water from the Buško Blato marshland, earlier natural slough and morass system. The total size of all lakes is 1/10 as large as the world average. Because of this, natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not economically important.

All the natural lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina are younger than 9000 years, unlike the other European lakes. This was concluded after the explorations of absolute age of the lake silt. It was written in older literature that the mountain lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina were made because of glacial movements, and the lower altitude lakes of river flows in combination with glaciations, but many other facts were unattended. In the mountain parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina animal husbandry had a crucial impact on lakes. Every ranch had its own lake which served as a cattle watering-place. If there were no natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, then the artificial lakes were made, for example Jugovo Lake at Zelengora mountain.

Unlike the mountain lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Plivsko Lake was made of a natural chemical precipitate of carbonate minerals and forming travertine sediment in the process. The subsistence of these lakes is highly threatened by urbanisation, which began in the 1960s.

Hutovo Blato was made in the valley of the Neretva river and its existence depends on the energy and meliorative attempts in the underflow of Neretva river. Ichthyological research of natural lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina began in 1924 and that research determined good natural and biological opportunities for the fish farming.

List of lakes Lake Origin Rive/Mountainr/Village/Town/Municipality Alagovac Lake Natural Nevesinje Balkana Lake * Natural/Artificial Mrkonjić Grad Bara Lake Bardača Lake Natural Srbac Bašigovačko Lake Natural Živinice Bijelo Lake Natural Treskavica Bijelo lake Natural Zelengora Bilećko Lake Artificial Bileća Bistarac Lake Natural Lukavac Bijelo Borje Lake Natural Bijelo Borje - Vareš Blatačko Lake Natural Konjic/Bjelašnica Blidinje Lake * Natural/Artificial Tomislavgrad/Posušje, Vran Mt., Čvrsnica Mt. Bočac Lake Artificial Bočac Boračko Lake Natural Konjic/Glavatičevo Breštica Lake Natural Banovići Bukvensko Lake Busača Lake Busija Lake Natural Glamoč Buško Blato Artificial Livno Bužimsko Lake Artificial Bužim Crno Lake Natural Treskavica Crno Lake Natural Zelengora Crvenjak Lake Natural Čvrsnica Deransko Lake Natural Hutovo Blato Donje Bare Natural Zelengora Drenova Lake Artificial Prnjavor Drijen Vrelo Natural Hutovo BlatoGoransko JezeroArtificialDoboj Gornje Bare Natural Zelengora Grabovičko Lake Artificial Jablanica Grahovčići Lake * Artificial/Natural Travnik Grajseljići Lake Artificial Ulog Gubinsko Lake Gvozno Lake Natural Ulog Hazna Lake Artificial Gradačac Hrast Lake Natural Glamoč Humci Lake Čelić Idovačko Lake Natural Raduša Ispod Pržića Malo Lake * Artificial/Natural Vareš Ispod Pržića Veliko Lake * Artificial/Natural Vareš Jablaničko Lake Artificial Jablanica/Konjic Jasikovac Lake Natural Drvar Jelim Lake Natural Hutovo Blato Jelovac Lake Jugovo Lake * Natural/Artificial Zelengora Kalemovo Lake Prozor-Rama, at an elevation of 900m Kladopoljsko Lake Natural Zelengora Klinje Lake Artificial Gacko Kotlaničko Lake Natural Zelengora Krenica Lake Natural Drinovačko field Kukavičko Lake Natural Kupres Kvrkulja Lake Laminci Lake Natural Gradiška Lipsko Lake Artificial Livno Mali Lug * Artificial/Natural Fojnica Malo Lake Malo Plivsko Lake Natural Jajce Mandek Lake Artificial Livno Mezgraja Lake * Artificial/Natural Ugljevik Mijino Lake Mlado Lake * Artificial/Natural Kakanj Modračko Lake Artificial Lukavac Mostarsko Lake Artificial Mostar Nuga Lake Artificial TihaljinaOkruglo* Natural/ArtificialPliva Oličko Lake Opačićko Lake Natural Glamoč Orah Lake Natural Hutovo Blato Orlovačko Lake Natural Zelengora Orlovo Lake Ozren Panonsko Lake Artificial Tuzla Pasje Lake Paučko Lake * Natural/Artificial Kladanj Pelagićevo Lake * Artificial/Natural Pelagićevo Peručaćko Lake Artificial Peručac Pijavičko Lake Platno Lake Natural Treskavica, above Veliko lake Popovača Lake Preodačko Lake Artificial Drvar Prokoško Lake Natural Vranica Radovan Lake Artificial Gornji Vakuf Ramsko Lake Artificial Prozor Ramičko Lake Natural Banovići Rastičevsko Lake Natural Kupres Salakovačko Lake Artificial Mostar/Salakovac Sniježnica Artificial Sniježnica, Teočak Starača Lake Šatorsko Lake Natural Šator Šićki Brod Lake * Artificial/Natural Šićki Brod Škrka Lake Natural Hutovo Blato Štirinsko Lake () Natural Zelengora Trebinjsko Lake Artificial Trebinje Tribistovo Lake Artificial Posušje Turjača Lake Natural Kupres Uloško Lake (a.k.a. Crvanjsko Lake) Natural Ulog Vareš Lake * Artificial/Natural Vareš Velež Lake Velež Veliki Lug * Artificial/Natural Fojnica Veliko Lake Natural Treskavica Veliko Plivsko Lake * Natural/Artificial Jajce Vidara Lake Artificial Gradačac Vijenac Lake * Natural/Artificial Banovići Višegradsko Lake Višegrad Vrtliško Lake * Artificial/Natural Kakanj Vrutak Lake Artificial Hutovo Zanasovići Lake * Artificial/Natural BugojnoŽabar Lake Natural Pelagicevo Zvorničko Lake Artificial Zvornik Ždrimačko Lake Gornji Vakuf Župica Lake, a.k.a. Prekajsko Lake Artificial Drvar * Artificial/Natural - Abandoned surface mineshaft subsequently flooded with underground wells; * Natural/Artificial - Of natural origin with a subsequent works on regulating the quantity of water and/or increasing depth and/or arranging the environment.

List of lakes of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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