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Lake Constance (German: Bodensee) is a lake on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps, and consists of three bodies of water: the Obersee or Upper Lake Constance, the Untersee or Lower Lake Constance, and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein.
These waterbodies lie within the Lake Constance Basin (Bodenseebecken), which is part of the Alpine Foreland and through which the Rhine flows.
The lake is situated in Germany, Switzerland and Austria near the Alps.
Its shorelines lie in the German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, and the Swiss cantons of Thurgau, St Gallen and Schaffhausen.
Freshwater Lake Constance is central Europe's third largest, after Lake Balaton and Lake Geneva.
It is 63 km long, and at its widest point, nearly 14 km.
It covers approximately 571 km2, and is 395 m above sea level.
The greatest depth is 252 metres in the middle of the eastern part (Obersee).
Its volume is approximately 10×109 m3.
The lake has four parts: the main section, called Obersee, 476 km2; the north section, Überlinger See, 61 km2; the west section, Untersee, 63 km2; and the northwest section, the Zeller See and Gnadensee.
The regulated Rhine flows into the lake in the southeast, through the Obersee, the city of Konstanz and the Untersee, and flows out near Stein am Rhein.
The lake itself is an important drinking water source for southwestern Germany, called Bodensee-Wasserversorgung (Lake Constance Water Supply).
The culminating point of the lake's drainage basin is the Tödi at 3,614 metres above sea level.
Lake Constance was formed by the Rhine Glacier during the ice age and is a zungenbecken lake.
After the end of the last glacial period, about 10,000 years ago, the Obersee and Untersee still formed a single lake.
The downward erosion of the High Rhine caused the lake level to gradually sink and a sill, the Konstanzer Schwelle, to emerge.
The Rhine, the Bregenzer Ache, and the Dornbirner Ache carry sediments from the Alps to the lake, thus gradually decreasing the depth and coastline extension of the lake in the southeast.
In antiquity the two lakes still had different names; later, for reasons which are unknown, they came to have the same name.
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