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Buir
Buir (Buir Nuur, Буйр нуур; 贝尔湖) is a 615 km² transboundary freshwater lake on the Mongolia–China border in the Amur basin, fed by the Khalkh River, drained by the Orshuun River, a Ramsar site since 2004.
Cachuma Lake
Lake Cachuma is a Santa Ynez River reservoir in Santa Barbara County, California, formed by Bradbury Dam (Cachuma Project, 1950-1956). It supplies South Coast drinking water and hosts a county recreation area with camping, fishing, and boating.
Carnegie
Carnegie: chiefly Lake Carnegie, a 5,700 km2 ephemeral saline lake in the Shire of Wiluna, Western Australia, filling episodically after cyclones; Martu heritage site and 2023 nature reserve.
Casimir Lake
Casimir Lake is a lake in Keewatin, Northwest Territories, Canada, at 61°28'N 102°38'W on the Kamilukuak River, named for Casimir Island, itself named for a Chipewyan mapmaker of the 1926 Kazan River Expedition.
Caspian Marine
Caspian Marine (FEOW ecoregion 452) is a freshwater ecoregion covering the Central and Southern Caspian Sea, the deep part of the world's largest lake, with high fish endemism from Paratethys relicts and declining productivity.
Cayuga Lake
Cayuga Lake is the longest of New York's eleven Finger Lakes, 38 miles long and 435 feet deep, with a 785-square-mile watershed. Homeland of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ (Cayuga Nation), it faces phosphorus and harmful algal bloom management under a 2024 TMDL.
Champ (folklore)
Champ (Champy) is the legendary lake monster of Lake Champlain, New York–Vermont, rooted in Abenaki horned-serpent tales, 19th-century sightings, the disputed 1609 Champlain story, and the 1977 Mansi photograph.
Chany
Lake Chany (озеро Чаны), largest endorheic lake in Siberia, a shallow saline lake on the Baraba Lowland, Russia; about 2010 km², 2.2 m mean depth, formed only 3.6 ka BP, fed by Kargat and Chulym rivers.
Chao
Chao (巢湖, Chaohu Lake), fifth largest freshwater lake in China, a shallow 834 km² eutrophic lake in central Anhui near Hefei; dammed from the Yangtze in 1962, eutrophic since the late 1970s, improving under protected-area and water-diversion management.
Chapala
Lago de Chapala (Lake Chapala), Mexico's largest lake, in Jalisco and Michoacán; Ramsar site since 2009, capacity 7,897 Mm³, main water source for Guadalajara, fed by the Lerma River.
Chew Bahir
Chew Bahir ('Salt Sea', Lake Stefanie) is a saline terminal playa lake in the southern Ethiopian Rift, about 70 by 30 km. It was a 2,000 km2 freshwater lake during the African Humid Period and holds a 620,000-year sediment core used to study human evolution.
Chott El Hodna
Chott El Hodna, a 1,150 km2 endorheic salt lake in central Algeria's Hodna basin, Ramsar site 1053 (362,000 ha, designated 2001), seasonal winter flooding, summer salt crust, salinity source for groundwater, rich waterbird and endemic flora.
Chott El Jerid
Chott El Jerid (Chott el Djerid), Tunisia's largest salt lake at about 5,000 km2 in the northern Sahara between Tozeur and Kebili; Ramsar site 1699 (2007), flamingo wetland, halite and gypsum playa, and lithium-bearing brine resource.
Chott Melghir
Chott Melghir (Chott Melrhir), Algeria's largest salt lake and lowest point at −33 m, an endorheic Ramsar wetland (site 1296, 2003) in the Zone of Chotts, fed by Oued Biskra and Aurès runoff.
Churchill (lake)
Churchill Lake, northwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, a 213-square-mile headwater lake of the Churchill River at 1,381 ft elevation, linked to Peter Pond Lake and drained south into the Churchill River toward Hudson Bay.
Claire
Claire (Clair) names several North American lakes, chiefly Lake Claire, Alberta, a ~1,436 km2 shallow lake at the center of the Peace-Athabasca Delta, plus smaller Claire/Clair lakes in Ontario, BC, Yukon, Saskatchewan, Michigan, and an Atlanta neighborhood.
Clark (landform)
Clark (landform) = Lake Clark, Dena'ina Qizhjeh Vena, a glacial lake in southwest Alaska, 41-42 mi long, 870 ft deep, sixth largest in Alaska, namesake of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.
Clear Lake (California)
Clear Lake is a large, shallow lake in Lake County, California, the largest natural lake wholly within the state and one of North America's oldest.
Clinton-Colden
Clinton-Colden Lake (lac Clinton-Colden), ninth largest lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, part of the Lockhart River system; named and first explored by George Back in 1834 after De Witt Clinton and Cadwallader Colden.
Colville (lake)
Colville Lake (K'áhbamítué, "ptarmigan net place") is a lake in the Mackenzie region, Northwest Territories, Canada, at 67°10′N 126°0′W, named by John Franklin for Andrew Colville; the small Sahtu community of Colville Lake sits on its shore.
Dal Lake
Dal Lake, an 18 sq km urban freshwater lake in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, with four basins, houseboats, shikaras, and floating gardens (Raad), facing eutrophication and sustained restoration.
Davis Lake
Davis Lake, Oregon: a Deschutes County lake dammed by a Holocene andesite lava flow of the Davis Lake Volcanic Field, three cones erupted about 5,000 years ago; low threat, monitored by the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory.
Dong dongting hu
Dongdongtinghu (East Dongting Lake), part of Dongting Lake (洞庭湖) in northern Hunan, China, is a Ramsar wetland (Site 551, 1992) with a 1,328 km2 water surface, extreme seasonal water-level swings, and heavy Three Gorges Dam impacts.
Dongting
Dongting Lake (洞庭湖), China's second largest freshwater lake in Hunan, a Yangtze floodplain lake; shrank from ~6000 to ~2000 km2 through siltation and reclamation, key Yangtze flood regulator.
Dubawnt
Dubawnt: a large lake (about 3,600-3,800 km2) and its 933 km river in Keewatin, Nunavut-Northwest Territories, Canada; the river is the main tributary of the Thelon, first recorded by Samuel Hearne in 1770 and explored by Joseph Tyrrell in 1893.
Duck tour
Duck tour: sightseeing ride on an amphibious vehicle, usually a WWII DUKW "duck," traveling on land and water. Started 1946 in Wisconsin Dells; known for trademark disputes and fatal accidents prompting 2023 US Coast Guard canopy and bilge rules.
Eling Lake
Eling Lake (鄂陵湖, Ngoring Lake, Tibetan Cuoelang) is a large high-altitude freshwater lake in the Yellow River headwaters, Qinghai; a Ramsar site (no. 1436, 659 km²) with endemic fish, black-necked cranes, and Sanjiangyuan protection.
Emerald Lake (British Columbia)
Emerald Lake, British Columbia: the largest lake in Yoho National Park, named in 1900 for its rock-flour blue-green water; trails, canoe rental, lodge, and current watercraft closures.
Emerald Lakes
Emerald Lakes (Ngā Rotopounamu) are three sacred blue-green crater lakes below Red Crater on the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, New Zealand; mineral-colored, acidic water, tapu to Ngāti Hikairo ki Tongariro.
Erhai Lake
Erhai Lake (洱海) is China's seventh largest freshwater lake and Yunnan's second largest plateau lake, at Dali. Mesotrophic, phosphorus-limited since 2006, with blooms in 1996, 2003, and 2013 and Grade II–III water quality since 2018.