ヴィルマーニュの湖・トップ6

The Cammazes Dam is located in the Montagne Noire massif in the Tarn department. It provides a drinking water reserve for the municipalities around Revel. Built between 1954 and 1957 and commissioned in 1958, the Cammazes Dam is located on the Sor River, between the municipalities of Cammazes and Sorèze in the Tarn department, and the municipality of Saissac in the Aude department. It forms Lake Cammazes, which also receives excess water from the mountain channel via the Conquet spillway. The structure is intended for drinking water supply and irrigation. It supplies 200 municipalities, representing over 170,000 inhabitants. The surface area of the body of water is approximately 90 hectares. Its reservoir volume is 18.8 million cubic meters; the watershed area is 30 km². The operator is the Montagne Noire Water Institution. The water is piped to the Picotalen treatment plant. It also serves as a reserve for the Canal du Midi via a water intake feeding the mountain channel (water rights of 4 million cubic meters) (Wikipedia)

Easy hike 8.5 km

8.5 km, 2 hours of pleasant, shaded hiking

The calm of its deep waters

Superb and impressive, one of the 6 (main) lakes of the Montagne Noire, do not miss following the forest track which runs along its right bank.

Listen to the silence around the channel.

The way Riquet thinks about his work around the Canal du Midi remains in harmony and in no way destroys the natural beauty of the Black Mountain.

Lac de la Galaube, at the southwestern end of the Haut-Languedoc PNR, is like many others in the Montagne Noire a reservoir. It was built recently (1999-2001) even if a dam had already been imagined by Pierre-Paul Riquet during the creation of the Canal du Midi. Indeed, it is located on the Rougeanne (Alzeau), whose water intake a few hundred meters downstream supplies water to the Canal du Midi.