Winnemucca Lake
Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed in northwest Nevada that features the oldest known petroglyphs in North America. Located astride the border between Washoe and Pershing counties, it was a shallow lake until the 1930s, but was dried when a dam and a road were built that combined to restrict and block water flow.
Winnemucca Lake
- Type: Mud
- Description: dry lake bed in Nevada with petroglyphs
- Categories: dry lake and landform
- Location: Washoe County, Nevada, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.10511° or 40° 6′ 18″ north
Longitude
-119.33531° or 119° 20′ 7″ west
Elevation
3,773 feet (1,150 metres)
Open location code
85G24M47+2V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mud
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Japanese—“Winnemucca Lake” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Winnemucca”
- German: “Winnemucca Lake”
- Japanese: “ウィネマッカ湖”
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