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301 ft (92 m) 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 ...
The Falcon Dam is a 150 ft (46 m) high and 26,294 ft (8,014 m) long earthen embankment dam. The dam is made of 12,600,000 cu yd (9,633,391 m 3) of earth-fill, 282,000 cu yd (215,604 m 3) of concrete and 10,300 short tons (9,344 t) of reinforced steel. The center of the dam is over-topped with a 1,300 ft (396 m) long spillway with widths ranging ...
The Lake Falcon Dam International Crossing is a bridge across the Rio Grande south of Falcon Lake. The dam connects the United States-Mexico border cities of Falcon Heights, Texas and Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, Tamaulipas. The dam is also known as "Falcon Dam", "Puente San Juan", "Presa Falcón" and "Bordo Internacional de la Presa".".
400 km 2 (150 sq mi) 221 m (725 ft) Lake Winnipeg. Alberts Lake. Lake Athapapuskow. A Pre-Cambrian Shield cliff on Thompson Lake. Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park on Lake Winnipeg. Lake Winnipegosis from Winnipegosis Beach.
Falcon Lake, Manitoba. Coordinates: 49°41′11″N 95°19′34″W. Falcon Lake is an unincorporated urban centre at the western end of Falcon Lake situated in the southeasternmost section of the Whiteshell Provincial Park in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is the major entry point to the Whiteshell from the Trans-Canada Highway.
Whiteshell Provincial Park. Whiteshell Provincial Park is a provincial park in southeast Manitoba, approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of the city of Winnipeg. [ 1 ] The park is considered to be a Class II protected area under the IUCN protected area management categories. [ 2 ] It is 275,210 hectares (680,100 acres) in size.
Falcon Lake (Manitoba) Falcon Lake is located in the Whiteshell Provincial Park in southeastern Manitoba, Canada. The lake is about 152 kilometres east of Winnipeg on the Trans-Canada Highway near the Ontario border. [1][2] The lake is named for Métis poet and songwriter Pierre Falcon (1793–1876). [3] It appears on the Palliser map of 1865. [4]
West Hawk Lake is an impact crater lake on the Whiteshell River located in the Whiteshell Provincial Park in southeastern Manitoba, Canada. The circular shape of the main body of the lake is due to the submerged West Hawk crater, caused by a meteor impact into an ancient rock bed composed of mostly granite. At 115 metres (377 ft), it is the ...