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Tulare Lake (/ t ʊ ˈ l ɛər i / ⓘ) 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 ]
Today Laguna Grande is covered by the Upper Crystal Springs Lake located 2 mi (3.2 km) south of Crystal Springs Dam on Cañada Road. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Laguna Grande place name is also shown on the 1840s diseño del Rancho Cañada de Raymundo [ 5 ] and an 1856 plat of the Rancho de las Pulgas .
The lakes form an endorheic (closed) drainage system in the western edge of the Great Basin. [4] With a total combined surface area of 370 square miles (960 km 2), the lakes receive runoff from a drainage basin of 878 square miles (2,270 km 2) and are considered part of California's North Lahontan watershed. [7]
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
Huntington Lake (formerly, Basin) [2] is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. [1] It is located on the west end of Huntington Lake 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Big Creek, [2] at an elevation of 7027 feet (2142 m). [1] The Basin post office opened in 1913, the name was changed to Huntington Lake in 1916. [2]
In the past six months, a deluge of storms bringing record amounts of rain led to the lake's formation at Badwater Basin, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada.
Location: Marin County, California: Coordinates: 1]: Type: slightly saline slightly alkaline slightly eutrophic warm monomictic [2] [3]: Primary inflows: streams on north and east shores [4]: Primary outflows: via creek to Pacific Ocean: Catchment area: 66 hectares (163 acres) [4]: Basin countries: United States: Surface area: 3 hectares (7.4 acres) [4]: Average depth: 17.5 metres (57.4 ft) [4 ...
For three months, storms had pounded California, and rivers in the southern San Joaquin Valley were overflowing. Levees were breaching. Tulare Lake, an ancient inland sea drained a century ago in ...