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The 'Lácar Lake' () is a lake of glacial origin in the . It is enclosed in a mountain range of the Andes, at 630 m above mean sea level, approximately at . The area around the lake is mostly uninhabited, except for the small city of San Martín de los Andes on its northeastern coast.
The lake has a surface area of 55 km² and a mean depth of 167 m, with a maximum of 277 m. Its catchment basin comprises 1,048 km². Unlike most of the Argentinean lakes it drains toward the Pacific Ocean in Chile via Huahum River that flows through Huahum Pass in the Andes.

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★ World Lakes Database