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In terms of volume, the largest lake on the list is Lake Tahoe, located on the California–Nevada border. It holds roughly 36 cubic miles (150 km 3) of water. It is also the largest freshwater lake by area, at 191 sq mi (490 km 2), and the deepest lake, with a maximum depth of 1,645 feet (501 m). Among freshwater lakes entirely contained ...
Eleven reservoirs have a storage capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3); all of these except one are in or on drainages that feed into the Central Valley. The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake, with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3). Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
The Salton Sea is the largest lake in California by surface area. [ 102 ] [ 103 ] [ 104 ] The average annual inflow is less than 1.2 million acre⋅ft (1.5 km 3 ), which is enough to maintain a maximum depth of 43 feet (13 m) and a total volume of about 6 million acre⋅ft (7.4 km 3 ).
Tulare Lake (/ tʊˈlɛəri / ⓘ) or Tache Lake (Yokuts: Pah-áh-su, Pah-áh-sē) is a freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. Historically, Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. [2] For thousands of years, from the Paleolithic onward, Tulare Lake was a uniquely ...
Clear Lake (Pomo: Lypoyomi) [2] [3] is a natural freshwater lake in Lake County in the U.S. state of California, north of Napa County and San Francisco. It is the largest natural freshwater lake wholly within the state, with 68 square miles (180 km 2) of surface area. It has an age of nearly 500,000 years.
List of dams and reservoirs in California. Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. There are over 1,400 named dams and 1,300 named reservoirs in the state of California.
Lake Elsinore is the largest natural freshwater lake in Southern California. With its own 750-mi 2 (1,900-km 2) watershed, it is situated at the lowest point within the San Jacinto River watershed of 750 sq mi (1,900 km 2) [clarification needed], at the terminus of the San Jacinto River. It is the terminal lake of a partially closed basin ...
Lake Tahoe (/ ˈ t ɑː h oʊ /; Washo: Dáʔaw) is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the Western United States, straddling the border between California and Nevada.Lying at 6,225 ft (1,897 m) above sea level, Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America, [4] and at 122,160,280 acre⋅ft (150.7 km 3) it trails only the five Great Lakes as the largest by volume in the United ...