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The Venetian Lagoon is
the enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea in which the city of Venice is
situated. Its name in the Venetian language, Laguna
Veneta – cognate of Latin lacus, "lake" – has provided the
international name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of
salt water, a lagoon.
The Venetian Lagoon stretches from the River Sile in
the north to the Brenta in the south, with a surface area
of around 550 square kilometres (210 sq mi). It is around 8% land,
including Venice itself and many smaller islands. About 11% is permanently
covered by open water, or canal, as the network of dredged channels are called, while
around 80% consists of mud flats, tidal shallows and salt marshes.
The lagoon is the largest wetland in the Mediterranean Basin. [Wiki]
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