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Venetian Lagoon
The Venetian Lagoon is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Italian and Venetian language, ' – cognate of Latin ''ラテン語:lacus'', "lake" – has provided the international name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of salt water, a lagoon. Occasionally, Bottlenose Dolphins enter the lagoon possibly for feeding.
==Location==
The Venetian Lagoon stretches from the River Sile in the north to the Brenta in the south, with a surface area of around . 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.〔Poggioli, Sylvia (January 7, 2008). ("MOSE Project Aims to Part Venice Floods" ). ''Morning Edition'', radio program.〕
It is connected to the Adriatic Sea by three inlets: the Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia inlets. Sited at the end of a largely enclosed sea, the lagoon is subject to high variations in water level, the most extreme being the spring tides known as the ' (Italian for "high water"), which regularly flood much of Venice.
The nearby Marano-Grado Lagoon, with a surface area of around , is the northernmost lagoon in the Adriatic Sea and is called sometimes the "twin sister of the Venice lagoon".
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