Loch Evelix
artificial freshwater lake in Highland, Scotland, UK, on the River Evelix, dammed c.1900
Facts
13 properties- Instance of
- reservoir
- Inception
- 1900[8]
- Country
- United Kingdom[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 57.860°, -4.126°[10]
- Commissioned by
- Andrew Carnegie[4]
- Historic county
- Sutherland[12]
- Imported from
- wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
- Impounded by
- Loch Evelix dam[11]
- Inflows
- River Evelix[5]
- OS grid reference
- NH740876[9]
- Outflows
- River Evelix[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Loch Evelix
🔖 Identifiers · 7
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Loch Evelix - geograph.org.uk - 1718199.jpg ↗
- GB1900 ID
- 586d16732c66dc10b80843a5
- Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
- features/featurefirst10428
- GeoNames ID
- 11071779
- Standing Waters Database ID
- NH7818
- TOID
- 4000000074801728
- UK Lakes Portal ID
- 13470
⛏️ Lake Facts
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/London
2026-09-26
H/LK · GB
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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Summary
Loch Evelix is a reservoir[1].