Salton Sea

The Salton Sea is the largest lake in California, covering 376 square miles It is about 227 feet below sea level. Its salinity level is 44 parts per thousand versus 35 parts per thousand for the Pacific Ocean.
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  • Lake
  • …lies at an elevation of -230 feet (-70 metres)
  • …dates from 1905
  • Description: saline lake in Imperial and Riverside counties in California, United States
  • Also known as
    “Big Dry Lake”
    “Blake Sea”
    “Desert Lake”
    “Dry Bed”
    “Dry Bed of Lake”
    “Dry Lake”
    “Lake Cahuilla”
    “Lake LeConte”
    “Miracle in the Desert”
    “Salt Lake”
    “Salton Marsh”

Salton Sea

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Latitude
33.3158° or 33° 18′ 57″ north
Longitude
-115.8397° or 115° 50′ 23″ west
Open location code
85568586+84
Open­Street­Map ID
way 851978692
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
5391505
Wiki­data ID
Q503301

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Salton Sea” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Saltonmeer”
  • Arabic: “بحر سالتون”
  • Armenian: “Սալթոն ծով”
  • Basque: “Salton Itsasoa”
  • Bosnian: “Salton more”
  • Bulgarian: “Солтън Си”
  • Catalan: “Llac Salton”
  • Catalan: “Mar de Salton”
  • Catalan: “Salton Sea”
  • Cebuano: “Salton Sea”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریای ساڵتن”
  • Chinese: “沙东海”
  • Chinese: “索尔顿海”
  • Chinese: “索尔顿湖”
  • Chinese: “索爾頓海”
  • Chinese: “索爾頓湖”
  • Chuvash: “Солтон-Си”
  • Czech: “Salton Sea”
  • Czech: “Saltonské moře”
  • Dutch: “Salton Sea”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Saltono”
  • Faroese: “Salton Sea”
  • Faroese: “Saltonvatn”
  • Finnish: “Salton Sea”
  • Finnish: “Salton-järvi”
  • Finnish: “Saltonjärvi”
  • Finnish: “Saltonmeri”
  • French: “Lac Salton”
  • French: “Mer de Salton”
  • French: “Salton Sea”
  • French: “Salton”
  • Galician: “Lago Salton”
  • Galician: “Lago Saltón”
  • Georgian: “სოლტონ-სი”
  • German: “Salton Sea”
  • German: “Saltonsee”
  • Hebrew: “ימת סולטן”
  • Hebrew: “ימת סלטון”
  • Hungarian: “Salton-tó”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Salton”
  • Italian: “lago Salton”
  • Italian: “Lago Salton”
  • Japanese: “ソルトン湖”
  • Korean: “살턴 해”
  • Korean: “솔턴 호”
  • Korean: “솔턴호”
  • Korean: “솔튼 해”
  • Korean: “솔튼 호”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Salton”
  • Kurdish: “دەریایا سالتۆن”
  • Macedonian: “Солтон Си”
  • Macedonian: “Солтонско Море”
  • Mingrelian: “სოლტონიშ ზუღა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salton Sea”
  • Norwegian: “Salton Sea”
  • Persian: “دریای سالتون”
  • Polish: “Salton Sea”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Salton”
  • Romanian: “Marea Salton”
  • Russian: “Солтон-Си”
  • Serbian: “Солтон си”
  • Slovenian: “Salton Sea”
  • Slovenian: “Saltonovo morje”
  • Spanish: “Lago Salton”
  • Spanish: “Lago Saltón”
  • Spanish: “Mar de Salton”
  • Spanish: “Mar Salton”
  • Spanish: “Salton Sea”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Salton”
  • Swedish: “Salton Sea”
  • Turkish: “Salton Denizi”
  • Ukrainian: “Солтон-Сі”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ سالتون”
  • Vietnamese: “biển Salton”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Salton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Salton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salton Sea”
  • Welsh: “Môr Salton”
  • Yue Chinese: “索爾頓湖”

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