Czarny Staw pod Rysami

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Czarny Staw pod Rysami
Czarny Staw pod Rysami and Morskie Oko
Czarny Staw pod Rysami
Location	Tatra mountains
Coordinates	49°11′18″N 20°4′34″E / 49.18833°N 20.07611°E / 49.18833; 20.07611
Primary outflows	Morskie Oko
Basin countries	Poland
Max. length	578 m (1,896 ft)
Max. width	444 m (1,457 ft)
Surface area	0.079 sq mi (0.20 km2)
Max. depth	76 m (249 ft)
Water volume	7,761,700 m3 (274,100,000 cu ft)m³
Surface elevation	1,583 m (5,194 ft)

Czarny Staw pod Rysami, or Black Lake below Mount Rysy in English, is a mountain lake in the Tatra Mountains, Southern Poland. It is located on the Polish side of the highest mountain in Poland; Mount Rysy. At 1,583 m above sea level, it overlooks the nearby lake of Morskie Oko. Its maximum depth is 76 m (249 ft), this makes it the second deepest Tatra lake after Wielki Staw Polski, and fourth deepest in Poland.^[1] A walking path circumnavigates the lake, and leads up to Mount Rysy, or down to Morskie Oko.