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Large Hincovo Lake

1,950 m6,398 ft
Area
0.20 km²
Max depth
54 m
Tonight
-2°CFair · Wind 10 km/h SW

Large Hincovo Lake is a lake at 1,950 m above sea level in Slovakia, 0.20 km² in area and 0.8 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
1,950 m
Length
0.8 km
Shoreline
2.1 km
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Lake

Large Hincovo Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

0.8 km longest200 mN ↑
Shoreline
2.1 km≈30 min to walk around
3D map

Large Hincovo Lake 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Large Hincovo Lake terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the centre

Large Hincovo Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Large Hincovo Lake weather

Tonight · Fair · -2°C (28°F) · 0.2 mm · Wind 10 km/h SW

Large Hincovo Lake forecast for about 1,950 m.

  • Tonight-2°0.2 mm10 km/h SW
  • Today-2°1°–8 km/h SW
  • Sun-3°2°4.7 mm18 km/h SW
  • Mon-7°-1°1.9 mm17 km/h NW
  • Tue-5°1°–4 km/h NE
  • Wed-2°4°–4 km/h N
  • Thu-2°0°1.7 mm6 km/h N
  • Fri-4°1°0.1 mm5 km/h NE
  • Sat-4°-2°0.5 mm3 km/h N
  • Sun-4°-1°0.5 mm2 km/h S

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Large Hincovo Lake

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Large Hincovo Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

  • Nearest hut

    Chata pod Rysmi

    2.1 km ESE · +2 more within 2.7 km

  • Nearest campsite

    Szałasiska

    3.9 km NNE · +1 more within 4.2 km

  • Nearest parking

    4.2 km NNE

    +2 more within 5.9 km

All mapped places 8
PlaceDistance
Chata pod RysmiHut2.1 km ESE
Schronisko PTTK Morskie OkoHut2.6 km NNE
Stare Schronisko PTTK Morskie OkoHut2.7 km NNE
SzałasiskaCampsite3.9 km NNE
Parking4.2 km NNE
Táborisko na poľane pod VysokouCampsite4.2 km ENE
Lyžiarsky areál Štrbské PlesoParking5.7 km S
Parking5.9 km S
Slope

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.

Gentle, 0–15°
15.1%
Moderate, 15–30°
27.8%
Steep, 30–45°
36.9%
Cliffs, 45° and over
20.1%
Steeper than 30°
57.0% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view
1,019 m low point 1,395 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 46.5%Moss & lichen 27.3%Trees 11.0%Bare rock / sparse 10.8%Water 4.3%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 200 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Roseroot39
  • Hedge-leaved adenostyle34
  • Common bistort27
  • Spotted gentian25
  • Alpine avens23
  • Northern firmoss21
Where it sits

Where Large Hincovo Lake sits

Range
Carpathians56Inner Western Carpathians34Fatra-Tatra Area34Tatra Mountains21Eastern Tatras13High Tatras13
Region
Slovakia39Europe2,143
Protected area
Tatra National Park13
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
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Downloads

Large Hincovo Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain
Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-14)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Camping & parking, Geometry
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia