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Koman Lake
Koman Lake
The lake is in fact an artificial lake (a reservoir). It was created when the hydroelectric power station was built in the 1980s on the Drin River with the 115-meters high dam on one side, near Komani village. The lake stretches in an area of 34 km2.
Lake Koman is surrounded by dense forested hills, vertical slopes, deep gorges, and a narrow valley, completely taken up by the river. Besides the Drin, it is fed by the Shala and Valbona Rivers.
The place is also home to many species of animals, the golden jackal, red fox, European badger, Eurasian otter, beech marten are the primary predatory mammals. And birds including the common kingfisher, common quail, grey heron, Eurasian wryneck, great spotted woodpecker and black-headed gull.
