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Lake Cahuilla (/ k ə ˈ w iː. ə / kə-WEE-ə; [1] [2] [3] also known as Lake LeConte and Blake Sea) was a prehistoric lake in California and northern Mexico.Located in the Coachella and Imperial valleys, it covered surface areas of 5,700 km 2 (2,200 sq mi) to a height of 12 m (39 ft) above sea level during the Holocene.
Lake Cahuilla is a reservoir located in Southern California's Coachella Valley in Riverside County, California, [4] with a capacity of 1,300 acre-feet (1,600,000 m 3) of water. [5] The lake got its name from Ancient Lake Cahuilla that once covered surface areas of 5,700 km 2 (2,200 sq mi) to a height of 12 m (39 ft) above sea level during the ...
The most recent freshwater lake was Lake Cahuilla, [3] also known as the Blake Sea [4] after American professor and geologist William Phipps Blake. [5] It covered over 2,000 square miles (5,200 km 2 ), six times the area of the Salton Sea.
Oral legends suggest that when the Cahuilla first moved into the Coachella Valley, a large body of water that geographers call Lake Cahuilla existed. Fed by the Colorado River , it dried up sometime before 1700, after one of the repeated shifts in the river's course.
A large lake, Lake Cahuilla, existed in the area from about 20,500 to 3,000 years ago and left evidence as wave-cut benches on the higher portions of the Salton Buttes. [3] A beach mark outlines the shoreline of ancient Lake Cahuilla where archeologists found rock fish traps and charred remains of razorback sucker and bonytail bones.
The Salton Sea is the most recent form of Lake Cahuilla, an ancient lake which has cyclically formed and dried over the centuries due to natural flooding from the Colorado River. The current Salton Sea was formed when Colorado River floodwater breached an irrigation canal being constructed in the Imperial Valley in 1905 and flowed into the ...
Southwest Lake Cahuilla Recessional Shoreline Archeological District: December 30, 1999 : Address Restricted: Salton City: Archeological sites along shoreline of former Lake Cahuilla: 5: Spoke Wheel Rock Alignment: September 29, 2003 : Address Restricted: Ocotillo: 6: Stonehead (L-7) May 1, 1987
Anza is named after Juan Bautista de Anza, a Spanish officer who led the Anza expeditions into California.. It is estimated that the Cahuilla aboriginal tribes inhabited an area including what is today the Anza Valley more than two thousand years ago and encountered Europeans only as late as 1774, when a Spanish expedition in search of an overland route from Sonora to Alta California made its ...