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Elevation of 6229 feet
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Tenth-deepest body of water on the planet (depth of 1,657 feet)
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North America’s largest
alpine lake (22 miles long and 12 miles wide)
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Shoreline 71 miles (42 miles in CA, 29 miles in NV)
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Surface water temperature
68 degrees maximum and 41 degrees minimum—it
never freezes over
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39.75 trillion gallons of water is 99.9% pure
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Visibility is 75 feet below the surface
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Formed 10,000 to 11,000
years ago—it is a “young lake”
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63 streams flow into Lake Tahoe; only one flows out, the Truckee
River
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Average snowfall per year is 420 inches-it can snow any month
of the year!
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The sun shines approx. 275 days a year
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4 million visitors a year
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The lake is as long as the English Channel is wide, with the width
of Lake Tahoe being half again as wide as the San Francisco Bay.
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Only two lakes in North American are deeper than Lake Tahoe: Crater
Lake in Oregon (1930 feet) and the Great Slave Lake in Canada (2010 feet)
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The Panama Canal averages
700 feet in width and 50 feet in depth, yet such a canal could be
filled by Lake Tahoe’s water and extend
completely around the earth at the equator, with enough remaining in
the lake to fill
another channel
of the same width and depth running from San Francisco to New York.
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If completely drained,
the lake would cover a flat area the size of California to a depth
of 14 ½ inches, and would take over
700 years to refill.
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Lake Tahoe loses much of its water to evaporation. If
the water that
evaporates every day could be recovered, it would supply the daily
requirements of
a city the size of Los Angeles.
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Glaciers are responsible for carving out the broad, U-shaped valleys
that hold Emerald Bay, Fallen Leaf Lake, and Cascade Lake.
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Mount Tallac is the highest peak rising from the shoreline (9,735
feet).
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The highest point in the Tahoe Basin is Freel Peak at 10,881
feet.
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