Lake Tharthar

Lake Tharthar
Landsat 5 (1990)
Lake Tharthar Location of Tharthar lake
Location	Al Anbar Province
Coordinates	33°58′N 43°11′E / 33.967°N 43.183°E / 33.967; 43.183
Primary inflows	Tharthar Canal
Primary outflows	Taksim Tharthar Canal
Basin countries	Iraq
Max. length	120 kilometres (75 mi)
Max. width	48 kilometres (30 mi)
Surface area	2,710 km2 (1,050 sq mi)[1]
Average depth	40 m (130 ft) to 65 m (213 ft)[1]
Water volume	35.18 km3 (8.44 cu mi) to 85.59 km3 (20.53 cu mi)[1]
Surface elevation	3 metres (9.8 ft)
References	[1][2]

Lake Tharthar (also Therthar), and known in Iraq as Buhayrat ath-Tharthar (Arabic: بحيرة الثرثار), is an artificial lake created in 1956,^[2] situated 100 kilometers (62 mi) northwest of Baghdad between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.