One of the largest artificial lakes in the world, it straddles the border between Arizona & Nevada
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Largest Artificial Lakes  Twelve Mile Circle  maps, geography, travel  Jul 16, 2013 ... Lake Mead formed behind the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and straddles the border between Arizona and Nevada. The lake also...
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Lakes | Britannica.com  It straddles the boundary between Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south. ... freshwater lake occupying a fault basin on the California-Nevada border in .... one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, on the Arizona-Nevada...
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Lake Powell - Wikipedia  Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and ... It is the second largest man-made reservoir by maximum water capacity in the ... The reservoir is named for explorer John Wesley Powell, a one-armed ... feet (9.3 km3) to the Lower Basin states (Arizona, Nevada, and California).
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Deepest Lakes in USA - Search Results - Lakelubbers  (California, USA / Nevada, USA), 1,645, Lake Tahoe Pictures ... Skipping over state and country borders, Lake Superior, the largest, deepest, coldest, ... of the Great Lakes, reigns as the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. ... the lake is one of the largest and deepest natural lakes in the western United States.
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Mountains - Carriel Scholar Bowl  It forms the boundary between Arizona, Nevada, and California. ... Creates Lake Mead, one of the largest, artificial lakes in the world, located on the Arizona ... This group of five lakes straddle the border between Canada and the United States,...
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Death Valley National Park - Wikipedia  Death Valley National Park is a national park in the United States. Straddling the border of California and Nevada, located east of the Sierra Nevada, it occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts in the United States. The park protects the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and contains a...
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Lakes & Rivers Jeopardy! Part 2 Quiz - By PlanetBoyPhil - Sporcle  This largest south-flowing tributary of the Ohio forms a 200-mile boundary between Indiana & Illinois. John C. Fremont named this Nevada lake for its tufa or rock...
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Lake Powell - Wikipedia  Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and ... The newly flooded Glen Canyon formed Lake Powell. ... Above this is Navajo Sandstone, the result of more compressed sand dunes. ... (location: Lake Powell's Arizona part); Rainbow Bridge, one of the world's largest natural...
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Free Flashcards about U.S GEOGRAPHY - StudyStack  AT ABOUT 440 SQUARE MILES, RED LAKE IS THE LARGEST OF THIS STATE'S "10,000 LAKES", MINNESOTA. YUMA, AZ IS THE LARGEST CITY LYING ON...
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Lake Las Vegas - Wikipedia  Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, Nevada, refers to a 320-acre (130 ha) artificial lake and the ... The lake was filled with 3 billion US gallons (11,000,000 m3) of water. Lake at Las Vegas Joint Venture, LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July...
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Lake Mead (man-made) vs Lake Okeechobee: Area of water and ...  Comparing Lake Mead (man-made) & Lake Okeechobee | U.S. states / Canadian provinces / Mexican states: Arizona-Nevada vs Florida | Area in sq mi: 247 sq...
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Reno, Nevada - Wikipedia  Reno is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located in Northern Nevada, approximately 22 miles (35 km) from Lake Tahoe. Known as "The Biggest Little City in the World", The Truckee Meadows area, ..... The city's charter calls for a council-manager form of government, meaning that the council appoints only two positions,...
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Hoover Dam - building, river, largest, source - Water Encyclopedia  Hoover Dam is located on the border between Arizona and Nevada. ... It covers an area of 603 square kilometers (233 square miles), and its shoreline measures...
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Colorado River - Wikipedia  The Colorado River (Spanish: Ro Colorado) is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern .... In Arizona, the river passes Lee's Ferry, an important crossing for early ... United States, formed by Hoover Dam on the border of Arizona and Nevada. ...... Stone's Ferry was established by these colonists on the Colorado at the...
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Lake Titicaca - Wikipedia  Lake Titicaca (Spanish: Lago Titicaca, Quechua: Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large, deep lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia. By volume of water and by surface area, it is the largest lake in South America.
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Arizona from A-Z - Geocities  For a land-locked state, Arizona has many Beaches on lakes and in rivers and reservoirs. ... and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City a desert town in northwest Arizona. ... Statehood. Tucson is called the Astronomy Capital of the World. ... The largest county in size is Coconino which is the second largest county in the country.
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Lake Tahoe - Wikipedia  Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States. At a surface elevation of 6,225 ft (1,897 m), it straddles the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America. Its depth is 1,645 ft (501 m), making it the second deepest in the United ... Only one third of the water that leaves the lake leaves via the Truckee,...
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Largest Lakes in USA - Volume - Search Results - Lakelubbers  Skipping over state and country borders, Lake Superior, the largest, deepest, coldest, cleanest, ... Hydrologically, this makes these "two lakes" a single lake. ... Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes of North America, straddles the borders of Ohio, ... Lake Mead ... Lake Sakakawea averages between two and three miles in width .
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Lake Superior Facts  Lake Superior is, by surface area, the world's largest freshwater lake. ... or 82,170 square kilometers) is greater than the combined areas of Vermont, Massachusetts, ... 3. Lake Superior contains as much water as all the other Great Lakes ... In the summer, the sun sets more than 35 minutes later on the western shore of Lake...
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Nevada  The Humboldt River, Nevada's longest, is located entirely within the state. ... The Walker flows into Walker Lake, the Carson into Lahontan Reservoir. ... Las Vegas and nearby communities have tried to increase their intake of the Colorado .... One interesting type of yucca is the Joshua tree, with oddly shaped branches and...
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Temple Ruins Found Under Lake Titicaca - Labyrinthina  A terrace for crops and a pre-Incan road with a 2600 feet long containing wall ... We've found what appears to have been a 660 long, 160 feet wide holy ... area of the lake between the town of Copacabana and the Islands of the Sun ... on the border between Bolivia and Peru, and is the highest navigable lake in the world.