Lake Tahoe Basin
| Lake Tahoe | |
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The north shore in California as seen from Chimney Bay on the Nevada side
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| Location | The Sierra Nevada of the U.S, along the state border of California and Nevada |
| Coordinates | 39°05.5′N 120°02.5′W / 39.0917°N 120.0417°WCoordinates: 39°05.5′N 120°02.5′W / 39.0917°N 120.0417°W |
| Lake type | Geologic block faulting |
| Primary outflows | Truckee River |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Max. length | 22 mi (35 km) |
| Max. width | 12 mi (19 km) |
| Surface area |
191 sq mi (490 km2): |
| Average depth | 1,000 ft (300 m) |
| Max. depth | 1,645 ft (501 m) |
| Water volume | 36 cu mi (150 km3) |
| Residence time | 650 years |
| Shore length1 | 71 mi (114 km) |
| Surface elevation | 6,225 ft (1,897 m) |
| Frozen | Never |
| Islands | Fannette Island |
| Settlements |
Incline Village, NV South Lake Tahoe, CA Stateline, NV Tahoe City, CA |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
191 sq mi (490 km2):
Placer County (41.0%)
Tahoe] El Dorado County (28.6%)
Douglas County (13.2%)
Washoe County (11.0%)
Lake Tahoe (/ˈtɑːhoʊ/) is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States. Lying at 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, and at 122,160,280 acre·ft (150,682,490 dam3) trails only the five Great Lakes as the largest by volume in the United States. Its depth is 1,645 ft (501 m), making it the second deepest in the United States after Crater Lake (1,945 ft (593 m)).
The lake was formed about 2 million years ago as part of the Lake Tahoe Basin, with the modern extent being shaped during the ice ages. It is known for the clarity of its water and the panorama of surrounding mountains on all sides. The area surrounding the lake is also referred to as Lake Tahoe, or simply Tahoe. More than 75% of the lake's watershed is national forest land, comprising the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the United States Forest Service.
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