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Falcon International Reservoir (Spanish: Embalse Internacional Falcón), commonly called Falcon Lake, is a reservoir on the Rio Grande 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Laredo, Texas, United States, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The huge lake is bounded by Starr and Zapata Counties on the Texas side of the international border and the ...
The Valley of Mexico is a basin with an average elevation of 2,236 m (7,336 ft) above mean sea level located in the southern highlands of Mexico's central altiplano.Lake Texcoco formerly extended over a large portion of the southern half of the basin, where it was the largest of an interconnected chain of five major and several smaller lakes (the other main lakes being Lakes Xaltocan, Zumpango ...
The following is a list of lakes of Mexico. Chihuahua. Lakes las chivas; Durango. Lake Palmito; Lake Santiaguillo; Jalisco. Lake Chapala (also in Michoacán) Lake ...
Amistad Reservoir (Spanish: Presa Amistad) is a reservoir on the Rio Grande at its confluence with the Devils River 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Del Rio, Texas.The lake is bounded by Val Verde County on the United States side of the international border and by the state of Coahuila on the Mexican side of the border; the American shoreline forms the Amistad National Recreation Area.
Lake Texcoco is the last remnant of a what used to be a much larger system of lakes and wetlands in the Valley of Mexico, an endorheic basin. The lake's surface is at 2200 meters elevation. The Ciénegas de Lerma, wetlands on the upper Lerma River in the Valley of Toluca. The wetlands cover over 3000 hectares around three shallow lakes, reduced ...
The lake itself is located on the bottom of a shallow depression, a graben, which is linked to the San Andreas Fault, and the East Pacific Rise as part of the Laguna Salada Fault. This fault is connected to the Salton Trough fault which holds a similar depression, the Salton Sink .
This category is for articles pertaining to lakes and reservoirs in Mexico. ... Pages in category "Lakes of Mexico" The following 20 pages are in this category, out ...
Atexcac Lake. Lake Alchichica in Tepeyahualco (municipality), Puebla, is the largest of the maar lakes of the Oriental Basin, and lies at an elevation of 2320 metersIt is Mexico's deepest natural lake, with a maximum depth of 64 meters, and a mean depth of 38.6 meters.