Lake Annecy ( French : Lac d'Annecy , [lak dansi] ) is a perialpine lake in Haute-Savoie in France . It is named after the city of Annecy , which marks the start of the Thiou , Lake Annecy's outflow river.
2-607: Veyrier-du-Lac ( French pronunciation: [veʁje dy lak] , literally Veyrier of the Lake ) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France . This Haute-Savoie geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lake Annecy It is the third-largest lake in France , after
4-521: The Lac du Bourget and Lac de Grand-Lieu , if the French part of Lake Geneva , which is shared between Switzerland and France, is excluded. It is a popular tourist destination known for its swimming and water sports. The lake was formed about 18,000 years ago, at the time the large alpine glaciers melted. It is fed by many small rivers from the surrounding mountains (Ire, Eau morte, Laudon, Bornette and Biolon) and
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