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Lake del Toro, in Chile, is a lake located in the Province of Ultima Esperanza, in the XII Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica.

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Lake del Toro, in Chile, is a lake located in the Province of Ultima Esperanza, in the XII Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica.

Lake del Toro has an area of 202 square kilometers and belongs to the large binational basin of the river Serrano. It has irregular contours and several headlands, peninsulas and inlets. In one of the latter, the most northwestern receives the Paine River, its main tributary. Other tributaries are: Las Chinas (105 km), Zamora and Baguales. The lake empties its waters in the Serrano River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean.

Also known as Lago del Toro or Lago Toro, its etymology comes from the lake's ability to generate 4 m swells due to a long (about 30 km) fetch and high winds aligned with the long axis of the lake. Locals say that the lake (and the nearby mountain Sierra del Toro) is named thus because the lake “is angry a lot”. Services on the lake include camping and fishing at Bahia el Bote.
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