Travel Guide Lac De Buško

This lake is called Buško Jezero/Бушко Језеро (pronounced "bouchko yezero") or Buško Blato/Бушко Блато. It covers 57 km2 between the municipalities of Tomislavgrad and Livno. It is located 6 km north of the Kamensko and Aržano border posts, 17 km south of Livno and 18 km east of Tomislavgrad.It is the largest lake in the country. This artificial lake was built during the Ottoman era and is located close to Croatia at an altitude of 700 meters. Its shores are home to the village of Prisoje (1,200 inhabitants) to the northeast, the monastery of St. Elias to the east, while to the south are the beach of Marinovac and the water sports base of Galin Lakat where boats can be rented. The lake, which is 17 m deep, is fed by underground rivers and is an outlet for the Livno, Duvno and Kupres polje basins, accumulating up to 800 million cubic meters of water that are discharged into Croatia. Indeed, since 1973, the lake has undergone a radical transformation with the creation of the Podgradina dam on its western shore. This one is used to produce electricity but, especially, to regulate the water level. Depending on the season, it lets the water from the Livno polje flow out or, on the contrary, takes the water from the lake to send it through a canal to the small Lipa retention lake, south of Livno. From there, the water flows through tunnels dug under the Kamešnica border massif (1,855 m above sea level) to the Croatian hydroelectric power plant in Orlovac and then to the Cetina River.