Lake Herrera

Lake Herrera
Lake Herrera
Location	Mosquera, Cundinamarca
Coordinates	4°41′26″N 74°16′29″W / 4.69056°N 74.27472°W / 4.69056; -74.27472
Type	Wetland Artificial lake (since 1973)
Part of	Bogotá savanna
Primary inflows	Bojacá River Bogotá River (San José channel)
Primary outflows	none
Basin countries	Colombia
Max. length	3 kilometres (1.9 mi)
Max. width	1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi)
Surface area	280 hectares (690 acres)
Average depth	1.3 metres (4.3 ft)
Max. depth	2 metres (6.6 ft)
Surface elevation	2,550 m (8,370 ft)
References	[1][2]

Lake Herrera is a small lake located at 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the urban centre of Mosquera and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of the capital Bogotá in Cundinamarca, Colombia. The Andean lake has made its name in the Herrera Period, the period in the history of central Colombia before the Muisca Period, after archaeologist Sylvia Broadbent excavated ceramics around Lake Herrera in 1971.^[1]