Mikri Volvi Camera
The camera is located on the northwest shore of the Lake, in the village of Mikri Volvi of the Municipality of Volvi, with a southwestern image direction, while opposite are the villages of Nea Madytos from the left and in the middle Kokkalou and Nea Apollonia. Lake Volvi is the 2nd largest lake in Greece with an area of 70.8 square kilometers and the largest in Macedonia.
Property-Hosting: Municipality of Volvi
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Lake Volvi (its old name was Besik) is located in the Thessaloniki regional unit, 35 km east of the city of Thessaloniki and 8 km west of the sea of the Strymonian Gulf, in the Mygdonia basin, within the municipality of Volvi. It is the second-largest lake in Greece and lies in sequence with Lake Koroneia, at a distance of 11.5 km from it. Together, the two lakes form a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, known as “Lakes Koroneia–Volvi.”
On its northern side runs the Egnatia Highway (while the old national road used to run along its southern side), and to its east flows the Richios River, which also serves as the lake’s overflow channel through the Rentina Pass toward the Strymonian Gulf. Lake Volvi has an elongated shape stretching east to west. Its average length is 19.5 km and its average width 3.4 km. With an average water level of 37 meters, its surface area is 70.8 square kilometers, corresponding to a total shoreline length of 54.4 km. This makes it the largest lake in Macedonia and the second-largest in Greece, with a maximum depth of 36–37 meters.
Lake Volvi has rich fish fauna, including 24 species of fish. Among them is the liparia (Alosa macedonica), which is endemic to the lake and found nowhere else in the world. Also particularly rare are the fish gelartza (Alburnus volviticus) and the lakopsaro or tylinari. However, the “king” of the lake is the carp (Cyprinus carpio). The area hosts 245 species of birds, including many migratory ones. Lake Volvi is an important breeding site for the grey heron (Ardea cinerea). Around 200 grey heron nests are found in two centuries-old plane trees near the village of Scholari (between the two lakes). A smaller number of grey herons and little egrets (Egretta garzetta) nest in the lakeside wet forest of Apollonia on the southern shore, together with many pairs of white storks (Ciconia ciconia), forming a rare ecological community.
Lake Volvi is one of the 11 Greek wetlands protected under the Ramsar Convention. The area is also a protected Natura 2000 site with the code GR1220009.