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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.

Lac de Laprade is surrounded by sagnes (another term for “peat bogs” in the south of France) which it is possible to cross in the dry and preserving nature thanks to the footbridges.

Lac de Laprade is surrounded by sagnes (another term for “peat bogs” in the south of France) which it is possible to cross in the dry and preserving nature thanks to the footbridges.

Listen to the silence around the channel.