He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

Pleasure boating is just scooting into its best months in California as crisp breezes bring out craft of every size on every kind of water -- ocean, lake and reservoir.

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

Near the west end of the lake it receives its first important tributary, the Lütschine.

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.

At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

After the Mekong's waters crest — when its downstream channels can handle the volume of water — the flow reverses, and water flows out of the engorged lake.

The lake is drawn down as winter approaches, to minimize ice damage and to maximize its capacity to store heavy spring runoff.

Cayuga lake is included in the American Viticultural Area with which it shares its name.

From 70, 000 to 12, 000 years ago, the lake level was to higher than its current level.

This lake, called " Lake Lisan ", fluctuated dramatically, rising to its highest level around 26, 000 years ago, indicating a very wet climate in the Near East.

However, he refers to the lake by its Greek name, Asphaltites.

After two days without significant food ( which they had forgotten to provision in the boats ), Allen's small fleet met Arnold's on its way back to Ticonderoga near the foot of the lake.

The fish community of this lake has remained stable over a long period until a number of introduced species | introductions in the 1970s restructured its food web.

Despite its beauty, size and numerous recreational opportunities, the lake is scarcely visited sheerly to its distance from Helsinki, and its daunting distance to other similarly-populated areas in the south of the country.

Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Giulietta Masina, the film took its inspiration from news reports of a woman ’ s decapitated head retrieved in a lake and stories by Wanda, a shantytown prostitute Fellini met on the set of Il Bidone.

Ghana gets 97 % of its energy from damming lake Volta and exports much of this to neighboring countries, however organisations such as the Ghana Nuclear Society have advocated the introduction of nuclear power into Ghana and indeed the country now has an atomic energy commission.

This lake is twenty-two kilometers long and at its widest point measures fourteen kilometers.

Some other popular sights are the Waterloo Column, the Laves House, the Wangenheim Palace, the Lower Saxony State Archives, the Hanover Playhouse, the Kröpcke Clock, the Anzeiger Tower Block, the Administration Building of the NORD / LB, the Cupola Hall of the Congress Centre, the Lower Saxony Stock, the Ministry of Finance, the Garten Church, the Luther Church, the Gehry Tower ( designed by the American architect Frank O. Gehry ), the specially designed Bus Stops, the Opera House, the Central Station, the Maschsee lake and the city forest Eilenriede, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

From there he went north to Hangzhou, which he described as one of the largest cities he had ever seen, and he noted its charm, describing that the city sat on a beautiful lake and was surrounded by gentle green hills.

He set out again with a caravan in February 1352 and after 25 days arrived at the dry salt lake bed of Taghaza with its salt mines.

Ysyk-Köl is the second largest body of water in Central Asia, after the Aral Sea, but the saline lake has been shrinking steadily, and its mineral content has been rising gradually.

Indeed, its name means " hot lake " in Kyrgyz.

: On lake shores, where the forest met the lake, you could find elf circles.

At the time of European contact, there were several groups of Iroquoian cultures living around the shores of the eastern end of the lake.

From 135, 000 to 90, 000 years ago tropical Africa had megadroughts which drove the humans from the land towards the sea shores and forced them to cross over to other continents. The researchers used radiocarbon dating techniques on pollen grains trapped in lake bottom mud to establish vegetation over the ages of the Malawi lake in Africa.

With more than 30 wineries currently located on the shores of Seneca Lake, the winter ' Deck the Halls ' event is a great time at the lake with participating wineries showcasing their vintages and pairing these wines with distinctive, tasty treats.

The low swampy shores of the lake and areas beneath the lake itself hold most of Venezuela's rich petroleum deposits.

On the shores of the lake are bongos, red river hogs, and Vaal rheboks, and other forest animals.

The only significant lake in Epirus is Lake Pamvotis, on whose shores lies the city of Ioannina, the region's largest and traditionally most important city.

Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, providing energy and picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the leeward shores.

Alkali flies, Ephydra hians live along the shores of the lake and walk underwater encased in small air bubbles for grazing and to lay eggs.

They like to spawn in moving water in a tributary stream, but they will spawn in windswept lake shores.

Since the initial construction of the lake, various buildings of national importance have been constructed on its shores.

Salt Lake City and its suburbs are located to the southeast and east of the lake, between the lake and the Wasatch Mountains, but land around the north and west shores is almost uninhabited.

Since the Great Salt Lake is a shallow lake with gently sloping shores around all edges except on the south side, small variations in the water level greatly affect the extent of the shoreline.

; Oolitic sand: The lake and its shores contain oolitic sand, which are small, rounded, or spherical grains of sand made up of a nucleus ( generally a small mineral grain ) and concentric layers of calcium carbonate ( lime ) and look similar to very small pearls.

The shores of the lake rise almost sheer to over 1, 800 m. From this lake issues the Biya, which joins the Katun at Biysk, and then meanders through the prairies of the north-west of the Altai.

On 29 August 1935, while the King and Queen were driving along the winding, narrow roads near their villa at Küssnacht am Rigi, Schwyz, Switzerland on the shores of Lake Lucerne, Leopold lost control of the car which plunged into the lake, killing Queen Astrid and her unborn fourth child.

It was located about a block-and-a-half east of the present Mission, near what is today the intersection of Camp and Albion Streets, according to most source on the shores of a lake ( long since filled ) called Lago de los Dolores.

The lake as it is visible from the shores of the Speke Resort in Kampala, Uganda

They inhabit the banks of fast-moving upland rivers with cold, clear waters, though, outside the breeding season, they may visit lake shores and sea coasts.

With a large proportion of the U. S. population living near our sea and lake shores, and an estimated 75 % of U. S. vacations being spent at the beach, there has been Federal interest — and a Corps of Engineers mission — in protecting these areas from hurricane and coastal storm damage.