** Lake Bruin State Park

The developed Lake Bruin State Park lies near St. Joseph.

Lake Bruin is an oxbow lake created by the meandering of the Mississippi River.

Seaman, state representative from Tensas Parish from 1944 – 1964 ; promoter of Lake Bruin State Park

File: A lone boat on Lake Bruin IMG 1250. JPG | Boating on popular Lake Bruin in Tensas Parish near St. Joseph

St. Joseph is the entry point to popular Lake Bruin State Park.

A fashionable gated house of the Baur family on Lake Bruin east of St. Joseph

St. Joseph is the entry community to Lake Bruin State Park located on Lake Bruin, a relatively clear oxbow lake of the nearby Mississippi River.

Salt Lake Community College's mascot is a Bruin Bear named Brutus.

Although the UCLA football program has turned out dozens of highly successful NFL players through the years, including Troy Aikman, Bob Waterfield, Mel Farr, Billy Kilmer, Jay Schroeder, Freeman McNeil, Steve Bono, John Sciarra, Jamir Miller, Donnie Edwards, Jerry Robinson, Kermit Alexander, Dave Dalby, Jonathan Ogden, Cade McNown, Carnell Lake, Ken Norton Jr, Kenny Easley, Tommy Maddox and Maurice Jones-Drew, Gary Beban was — and remains — the only Bruin to win the Heisman.

Lake St. Joseph, an ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River at Newellton, Louisiana | Newellton

Turkey's largest lake, Lake Van, is situated in the mountains at an elevation of.

Lake Sevan, across at its widest point and long, is by far the largest lake.

landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

In Lake Victoria, an isolated lake which formed recently in the African rift valley, over 300 species of cichlid fish adaptively radiated from one parent species in just 15, 000 years.

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

* Alph Lake, a lake in Antarctica

Anāsāgar Lake, this historic man-made lake was built by Maharaja Anaji ( 1135-1150 AD ).

Lake Foy Sagar is situated in the outskirts of the city, it is a picturesque artificial lake that was created as a famine relief project in 1892.

* Lake Turkana, Kenya ( the largest alkali lake in the world )

Lake Tanganyika is used for transport, with the major port on the lake being Bujumbura.

Dozmary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthurian legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake.

Lake Chad is the second largest lake in west Africa and is one of the most important wetlands on the continent.

The seventh largest lake in the world ( and the fourth largest in Africa ), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert.

: Hydropower from Lake Arenal, the largest lake in Costa Rica.

Cayuga Lake is the source of drinking water for several communities, including Lansing near the southern end of the lake along the east side, which draws water through the Bolton Point Municipal Water system.

The Lake Cadillac is entirely within the city limits, and some claim it is the largest lake entirely in any city in the United States.

Cadillac experiences a typical northern Michigan climate, undergoing temperate seasonal changes, influenced by the presence of Lake Michigan and the inevitable lake effect.

Lake Voulismeni at the coast, at Aghios Nikolaos, was formerly a sweetwater lake but is now connected to the sea, in Lasithi.

* Lake Cadillac, a lake in Cadillac, Michigan

While the Chicago River historically handled much of the region's waterborne cargo, today's huge lake freighters use the city's Lake Calumet Harbor on the South Side.

** Ilopango Lake, El Salvador crater lake.

By 1798 Thompson had completed a survey of from Grand Portage, through Lake Winnipeg, to the headwaters of the Assiniboine and Mississippi Rivers, as well as two sides of Lake Superior.

With the advent of European exploration into the area in the late 17th century, Lake Michigan became part of a line of waterways leading from the Saint Lawrence River to the Mississippi River and thence to the Gulf of Mexico.

According to Memphis, Tennessee's The Commercial Appeal newspaper, one manatee was spotted in the Wolf River harbor near the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on October 23, 2006, though it was later found dead ten miles downriver in McKellar Lake.

* Silver Lake, Mississippi ()

* General Patton Street, Hammond, Louisiana ; Lake Charles, Louisiana ; Morgan City, Louisiana ; Jackson, Mississippi ; Pascagoula, Mississippi ; Fort Drum, New York

Some native ranges of the white bass are the Arkansas River, Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio, and Lake Poinsett in South Dakota White bass have also been found in rivers that flow to the Mississippi.

This new agency devised a plan to construct channels and canals to reverse the flow of the rivers away from Lake Michigan and divert the contaminated water downstream where it could be diluted as it flowed into the Des Plaines and eventually the Mississippi.

The Cheyenne at this time lived between the Mississippi River and Mille Lacs Lake in present-day Minnesota.

After the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Hennepin Canal in the 19th century, the role of the river as link between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi was extended into the era of modern industrial shipping.

The ' Central Valley Grassland ' is the Nearctic temperate and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion which was once a diverse grassland containing areas of desert grassland ( at the southern end ), prairie, savanna, riverside woodland, marsh, several types of seasonal vernal pool, large lakes such as now-dry Tulare Lake, the largest lake in the United States west of the Mississippi, Buena Vista Lake and Kern Lake.

The division commander serves on two national and international decision-making bodies: co-chair of the Lake Superior, Niagara, and Ontario / St Lawrence Seaway boards of control ; and the Mississippi River Commission.

Vilas County waters drain to Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and the Mississippi River.

The county is drained primarily by Little River and its tributaries which flow into New River below the Claytor Lake Dam and, in turn, by way of the Kanawha River, the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, into the Gulf of Mexico.

While the majority of waterways in Geauga County are part of the Lake Erie watershed, the Silver Creek in Troy Township is a tributary to the west branch of the Mahoning River, part of the Ohio River watershed, the largest tributary to the Mississippi River.

* Bay Springs Lake is a reservoir on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in the U. S. state of Mississippi.

The waterway begins at Pickwick Lake on the Tennessee River, then flows southward through northeast Mississippi and west Alabama, finally connecting with the established Warrior-Tombigbee navigation system at Demopolis, Alabama.

Some scholars project that DeSoto discovered the Mississippi River west of present-day Lake Cormorant, built rafts there and crossed to Crowley's Ridge, Arkansas.

Rain falling on this hill runs to three watersheds: Hudson Bay to the north, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the east ( via Lake Superior ), or the Gulf of Mexico to the south and west ( via the Mississippi River ).