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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 ]
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).
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.
Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, encompassing as much as 790 square miles in what is now Kings and Tulare counties.
Clear Lake, one of California's most visited lakes, has turned cloudy and green amid an algal bloom that can threaten wildlife and tourists. ... At 43,000 acres, Clear Lake is the largest natural ...
This is a list of the largest reservoirs, or man-made lakes, in the U.S. state of California. All fifty-three reservoirs that contain over 100,000 acre-feet (0.12 km 3) of water at maximum capacity are listed. This includes those formed by raising the level of natural lakes, such as at Lake Tahoe.
California’s especially stormy winter has rejuvenated a long-dead lake.. Tulare Lake, less than an hour's drive from downtown Fresno, was at one point the largest body of freshwater west of the ...
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 ).