Orlången
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| Coordinates | 59°11′48″N 18°02′28″E / 59.19667°N 18.04111°ECoordinates: 59°11′48″N 18°02′28″E / 59.19667°N 18.04111°E |
| Primary inflows | Mörtsjön, Kärrsjön, Kvarnsjön |
| Primary outflows | Ågestasjön |
| Catchment area | 42.4 km2 (16.4 sq mi) |
| Basin countries | Sweden |
| Surface area | 2.740 km2 (1.058 sq mi) |
| Average depth | 4.4 m (14 ft) |
| Max. depth | 10.2 m (33 ft) |
| Water volume | 12.3×106 m3 (10,000 acre·ft) |
| Residence time | 1.33 years |
| Shore length1 | 24,960 m (81,890 ft) (including islands) 23,770 (excluding islands) |
| Surface elevation | 20.8 m (68 ft) |
| Islands | 7 |
| Settlements | Huddinge |
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| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
Orlången is a lake in central Huddinge Municipality, just south of , Sweden.
Orlången, one of the lakes in the Tyresån Lake System, forms part of the Orlången Nature Reserve.
The catchment area is composed of criss-crossing fractured valleys with alternating agricultural lands and forests. The lake and its shores are highly popular for open-air activities such as fishing, bathing, birdwatching, tour skating, canoeing, skiing, and walking. The Bottnen ("The Bottom") wetland near the inflow from Mörtsjön is an important bird locale. There are several public baths by the lake, but its many cliffs are also popular spots to spend a summer day. Approximately half of the lake is available for angling for people with the required angling card.
Though the mud-filled valleys surrounding Orlången originally made it moderately eutrophic, extended accumulation of nutrients from neighbouring populated areas has made it highly eutrophic. The deepest areas of the lake are depleted of oxygen during both winters and summers, which can indicate that internal loads are worsening the situation; the lake is possibly self-fertilising, as nutrients are released from its sediments. The present discharge of phosphorus, mostly deriving from three residential areas by the lake, is still too high although it remains controllable.
Aquatic plants includes reed, club-rush, wood club-rush, broadleaf cattail, flowering rush, water hemlock, yellow iris, yellow loosestrife, bittersweet, yellow water-lily, white water-lily, broad-leaved pondweed, red pondweed, whorled water-milfoil, amphibious bistort, water-soldier, frogbit, duckweed, greater bladderwort, and greater duckweed. Along the shores of the lake are hybrid crack willow, alder, bay willow, grey willow, aspen, ash, purple-loosestrife, marsh fern, wild angelica, marsh woundwort, gypsywort, creeping spearwort, marsh cinquefoil, marsh-marigold, bittersweet, skullcap, corn mint, meadowsweet, trifid bur-marigold, and purple small-reed.
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