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.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Salton Sea
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Imperial and Riverside counties in California United States
- Categories: endorheic lake, rift lake and salt lake
- Location: Desert, California, United States, North America
Latitude 33.3126° or 33° 18' 45.5" north | Longitude -115.8397° or 115° 50' 22.8" west |
Elevation -230 feet (-70 metres) | OpenStreetMap ID way 851978692 |
GeoNames ID 5391505 |
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Saltonmeer
- Arabic: Dagat Salton
- Arabic: بحر سالتون
- Basque: Salton Itsasoa
- Bosnian: Salton more
- Catalan: Llac Salton
- Catalan: Llac de Salton
- Catalan: Mar de Salton
- Catalan: Salton Sea
- Catalan: llac Salton
- Cebuano: Salton Sea
- 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-järvi
- Finnish: Salton Sea
- Finnish: Saltonjärvi
- Finnish: Saltonmeri
- French: Lac Salton
- French: Mer de Salton
- French: Salton
- French: Salton Sea
- Galician: Lago Salton
- Galician: Lago Saltón
- Georgian: სოლტონ-სი
- German: Salton Sea
- German: Saltonsee
- Hebrew: ימת סולטן
- Hebrew: ימת סלטון
- Hungarian: Salton-tó
- Italian: Lago Salton
- Italian: Salton Sea
- 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
- Persian: خلیج عقبه
- Persian: دریای سالتون
- Polish: Salton Sea
- Portuguese: Lago Salton
- Romanian: Marea Salton
- Russian: Солтон-Си
- Serbian: Солтон си
- Spanish: Lago Salton
- Spanish: Lago Saltón
- Spanish: Mar Salton
- Spanish: Mar de Salton
- Spanish: Salton Sea
- Swedish: Salton Sea
- Turkish: Salton Denizi
- Urdu: بحیرہ سالتون
- Vietnamese: Biển Salton
- Waray (Philippines): Dagat Salton
- Waray (Philippines): Salton Sea
- Yue Chinese: 索爾頓湖
- Big Dry Lake
- Blake Sea
- Desert Lake
- Dry Bed
- Dry Bed of Lake
- Dry Lake
- Lake Cahuilla
- Lake LeConte
- Salt Lake
- Salton Marsh
In the Area
Localities
- Bertram, CaliforniaLocality
- Salton City
- Bombay Beach
- Pope, Imperial County, CaliforniaLocality, 8 miles northeast
- TruckhavenLocality, 8 miles west
- DurmidLocality, 8 miles north
Landmarks
- Salton Sea Test Base B-1Aerodrome
- Bertram MineQuarry, 7 miles northeast
- Sea View BeachBeach, 7 miles south
- Salton Sea State Recreation AreaPark, 7 miles north
- Bombay BeachBeach, 7 miles east
- Salton Sea AirportAerodrome, 8 miles southwest
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