Lake Tahoe

FreshwaterUSA
CountryUSA
Area495 km2
Max Depth501 m
TypeFreshwater

About Lake Tahoe

Second deepest in USA. Extraordinary clarity. At 1,897 m in Sierra Nevada.

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