Lakes : a leisure arisen from the floating
The most famous and the vastest of lakes, the "Settons", has been born in 1854 of a dam on the Cure. Its name comes from the dialect "chettons" which indicated the stunted vegetation of the edges of the river.

As many lakes of the Morvan, Pannecière-Chaumard, Chaumeçon, Crescent, the Settons was created to regulate the  rivers and allow the floating of the wood. Today, it is completely dedicated to the green leisure activities and benefits from nautical installations since 1973.

As only exceptions, Saint-Agnan and Chamboux , constitute reserves of drinking water. All these lakes are situated in the north part of Morvan, called the "Low Morvan".

When Clamecy warmed Paris
From 1547 to 1923, Clamecy supplied the wood to Paris.

Logs, cut in the forests of Morvan, were piled up at the edge of rivers, marked with the name of their owner.

The day of the floating "at logs lost" (in March), the wood was thrown in the stream and floated down to Clamecy, where it was stopped by dams (the "tricage").

Tied up together to form "rafts", logs were then conducted to Paris, via the Yonne and the Seine.

Morvan thus supplied during more than three centuries the main part of the firewood of the capital, until barges supplanted the activity of the floating as from the XIXth century.