Zilezers Lake
Lake Zilezers (Lake Siņejes) is located in the Zilupes plain of the Mudavas lowland, in Līdumnieki parish of Cibla municipality, on the border between Latvia and Russia. It is at 104.4 m above sea level.
The lake has an oval shape; it is surrounded by marshes. The shores mostly are low and sloping, in the south-western part the shores are slanting.
The bottom is even, in the northern and eastern parts it is sludgy.
Earlier the Zilupe River used to flow through the lake, now the riverbed has been straightened and the river is flowing westwards from the lake.
The Pernovka River flows into the lake in the south; between it and the former inflow place of the Zilupe River there is a small, low island; the old outflow to the Zilupe River is regulated.
It is a eutrophic, partly overgrown lake.
It hosts pike, perch, bream, tench, eel.
Area: 216.0 ha (in Latvia 56.9 ha)
Length: 2.2 km, max. width: 1.3 km.
Average depth: 2.5 m, max. depth: 3.8 m.
Basin: 72.0 km2 (it belongs to the basin of the Velikaya River)
Latvijas daba. 6.sēj. – Rīga: Latvijas enciklopēdija, 1998. – P. 143.