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Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems
Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems (Lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie), a serial French UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 2008: six marine clusters, 1,574,300 ha, 146 reef structure types, third-largest dugong population.
Lagos Botanical Gardens
Lagos Botanical Gardens is a loose label covering several sites in Lagos, Nigeria. The most prominent is the 60-hectare Murtala Muhammed Memorial Botanic Garden, founded in 1991.
Laguna Blanca Biosphere Reserve
Laguna Blanca Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Laguna Blanca), a UNESCO MAB reserve in Catamarca, Argentina, designated 1982 to conserve the vicuña; Puna and High Andes landscape of 640,504 ha, lagoons, Chaku shearing tradition, and 2025 Zonda wind reconstruction.
Laguna de Pozuelos Biosphere Reserve
Laguna de Pozuelos Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Laguna de los Pozuelos), a UNESCO MaB reserve in Jujuy, Argentina, centered on a 3,600 m Puna lagoon; Ramsar site 555 (1992), Natural Monument (1980), WHSRN site hosting over 100,000 shorebirds and three flamingo species.
Laguna Madre (protected area)
Laguna Madre is a large hypersaline coastal lagoon on the Gulf of Mexico coast of Tamaulipas, northeastern Mexico, near the Texas border, protected as a Ramsar site since 2004 and the largest natural lagoon in Mexico.
Laguna Madre y Delta del Rió Bravo Biosphere Reserve
Laguna Madre y Delta del Rió Bravo Biosphere Reserve, Tamaulipas, Mexico: UNESCO MAB site designated 2006, 1,631,937 ha, protecting a hypersaline lagoon, river deltas, 450 bird species, and Kemp's ridley nesting beaches.
Laguna Oca y Herraduras del Río Paraguay Biosphere Reserve
Laguna Oca y Herraduras del Río Paraguay Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO reserve on the Paraguay River floodplain in Formosa Province, Argentina, designated in 2001.
Laguna San Rafael y el Guayaneco Biosphere Reserve
Laguna San Rafael y el Guayaneco Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MaB reserve in Aysén, Chilean Patagonia, designated 1979, protecting 51,304 km² including the North Patagonian Ice Field and San Rafael Glacier, with Laguna San Rafael National Park as core zone.
Laguna Theme Park
Laguna Theme Park (متنزة لاقونا) is a family-friendly theme park in Benghazi, Libya, at 32.07207 N, 20.12713 E; one of two theme parks in the city, offering mechanical rides and entertainment stalls.
Lagunas altoandinas y puneñas de Catamarca
Lagunas altoandinas y puneñas de Catamarca is a Ramsar wetland site and provincial reserve in Catamarca, Argentina, designated in 2009 and covering over 1.2 million hectares of high Andean lakes.
Lagunas de Guanacache, Desaguadero y del Bebedero
Lagunas de Guanacache, Desaguadero y del Bebedero, Ramsar site no. 1012, is a 962,370-hectare chain of lagoons and marshes in Mendoza, San Juan, and San Luis, Argentina, fed by the Mendoza and San Juan rivers, home to Huarpe Lagunero communities, and 80% dried since 1987.
Lagunas de Vilama
Lagunas de Vilama, Ramsar site 1040 in Jujuy, Argentina: over ten high-Andean saline lagoons at 4,500 m, 157,000 ha, designated 2000, hosting 13% of world James's flamingo population.
Lahami
Lahami, also written Wadi Lahami or Wadi Lahma, is a wadi on Egypt's Red Sea coast, the site of an ancient Roman road station and modern diving tourism.
Lahnau-Dorlar
Lahnau-Dorlar is the site of an early Roman military camp in Dorlar, part of Lahnau in central Hesse, Germany, occupied under Augustus between 11 BC and 15 AD.
Lake Achit and its surrounding wetlands
Lake Achit and its surrounding wetlands is a Ramsar site in western Mongolia, designated in 2004, home to Achit Lake, the Mongolian Altai's largest freshwater lake.
Lake Albacutya
Lake Albacutya (Ngalpakatia/Ngelpagutya) is a 5,659 ha intermittent freshwater lake in north-west Victoria, Australia, a Ramsar site since 1982 that fills roughly every 20 years from the Wimmera River via Lake Hindmarsh and Outlet Creek and supports major waterbird gatherings.
Lake Bardawil
Lake Bardawil (بحيرة البردويل), hypersaline coastal lagoon on North Sinai's Mediterranean coast, Egypt; Ramsar site 407 (1988), Montreux Record 1990; ~650 km², ~500,000 migratory birds, major sole, bass, and mullet fishery.
Lake Buir and its surrounding wetlands
Lake Buir and its surrounding wetlands (Буйр нуур), Ramsar site 1377, is a 104,000 ha wetland complex in Dornod, eastern Mongolia, designated in 2004 around Mongolia's fifth largest lake, a key East Asian-Australasian flyway waterbird site.
Lake Chilwa Wetland Biosphere Reserve
Lake Chilwa Wetland Biosphere Reserve: Ramsar Site No. 869 (1997) and UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve around Lake Chilwa, Malawi's second-largest, endorheic lake, vital for fisheries, rice, and 1.5 million waterbirds.
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, also called Qizhjeh Vena country, is a 4-million-acre roadless Alaska park established by ANILCA in 1980, with two active volcanoes, the 2.6-million-acre Jay S. Hammond Wilderness, and Bristol Bay sockeye headwaters.
Lake Compounce
Lake Compounce, Bristol, Connecticut amusement park founded 1846, billed as the oldest continuously operating in North America; 1927 Wildcat wooden coaster, 1911 carousel, Crocodile Cove water park; owned by Herschend since the 2025 Palace Entertainment sale.
Lake Elton Biosphere Reserve
Lake Elton Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, designated in 2019 around Lake Elton, Europe's largest salt lake, covering over 207,000 hectares near Kazakhstan.
Lake Erhu Rose Culture Garden
Lake Erhu Rose Culture Garden (鹅湖玫瑰文化园, Ehu Lake Rose Culture Park) is a rose-themed agriculture and tourism park in Ehu Town, Xishan District, Wuxi, Jiangsu, founded by Zhang Ji and opened in May 2018, with over 500 rose varieties and five themed zones.
Lake Fausse Pointe State Park
Lake Fausse Pointe State Park, a 6,000-acre Louisiana park established 1986 in the Atchafalaya Basin near St. Martinville, offers waterfront cabins, canoe trails, and camping outside the West Atchafalaya Protection Levee.
Lake Kanieris and Kemeri bog
Lake Kanieris and Kemeri bog, Ramsar Site no. 739 in Latvia (designated 1995, extended 2020), a 361.8 km² wetland within Kemeri National Park: shallow lagoon Lake Kanieris with 14 islands and about 237 bird species, and the Great Kemeri raised bog.
Lake Louise, Alberta
Lake Louise, Alberta: glacial lake in Banff National Park, 55 km west of Banff, turquoise from rock flour; discovered 1882 by Tom Wilson, renamed 1884 for Princess Louise; CPR resort from 1890; heavily managed for shuttle-based tourism.
Lake Maria State Park
Lake Maria State Park is a 1,600-acre Minnesota state park in Wright County near Monticello, established 1963, preserving a remnant of the Big Woods forest, with hike-in tent camping, camper cabins, and over 200 bird species.
Lake McDonald Lodge
Lake McDonald Lodge, originally the Lewis Glacier Hotel, is a 1913-14 Swiss chalet style National Historic Landmark lodge on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana, now operated by Xanterra with 82 guest rooms.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Lake Mead National Recreation Area is a 1.5-million-acre unit of the National Park System in Nevada and Arizona, the nation's first and largest national recreation area.
Lake Murray (Oklahoma)
Lake Murray, Oklahoma: man-made reservoir near Ardmore in Carter and Love counties, formed by damming Fourche Maline and Anadarche creeks; center of Oklahoma's first and largest state park, built by New Deal agencies.