In 1959, according to the Engineers, Lake Texoma was only one of thirty-two artificial lakes and reservoirs which were used for recreation by over 1,000,000 persons.

The eastern branch of the East African Rift, contains much smaller lakes, many of them brackish and without outlet, the only one comparable to those of the western trough being Lake Turkana or Basso Norok.

Around one third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.

With 33. 7 % salinity, it is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, though Lake Assal ( Djibouti ), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica ( such as Don Juan Pond ) have reported higher salinities.

" Of the five lakes, Lake Michigan is the only one that is located entirely within the United States ; the others form a water border between the United States and Canada.

Lake Miragoâne is one of the largest natural freshwater lakes in the Caribbean, with an area of 25 km².

With its around 40 parks, forests and gardens, a couple of lakes, two rivers and one canal, Hanover offers a large variety of leisure activities.

It is one of numerous large lakes in an arc from Labrador through the northern United States and into the Northwest Territories of Canada.

The landscape includes one of Asia's largest freshwater lakes ( Lake Khövsgöl ), many salt lakes, marshes, sand dunes, rolling grasslands, alpine forests, and permanent mountain glaciers.

Pliny connected these two rivers as one long watercourse which flowed ( via lakes and underground sections ) into the Nile, a notion which persisted in the Arab and European worlds – and further added the Senegal River as the " Ger " – until the 19th century.

The upper Ohio River formed when one of the glacial lakes overflowed into a south-flowing tributary of the Teays River.

In the 1960s, the " Aluminum Company of America " ( Alcoa ) built a US $ 150-million dam for the production of hydroelectric energy at Afobaka ( the Brokopondo Reservoir south of Brokopondo ), which created a 1, 560 km² lake, one of the largest artificial lakes in the world.

** the benthic species from one lake will spawn with the benthic species from the other lakes and

* Paternoster lake, one of a series of glacial lakes connected by a single stream or a braided stream system

Bhopal is known as the City of Lakes for its various natural as well as artificial lakes and is also one of the greenest cities in India.

It is one of the two freshwater lakes in the Rift Valley in Kenya, the other being Lake Naivasha.

The Covadonga area is also rich with astonishing stories, such as the one which is said to have happened in a shepherd village where today Enol and Ercina lakes are situated.

It was much smaller than its later forms and its connection to the main sea was much narrower ; it may have been a complex of lakes and marshes and channels, rather than one lake.

A Soviet era one is located in the Botanica district, along the three lakes of a major park, which reaches the outskirts of the city center.

* Silver Lake-this tiny glacial lake is the only one of the Finger Lakes group of lakes that is west of the Genesee.

It is a few miles away from Lake Oahe, one of the largest man made lakes in the world and a very popular fishing destination.

The Sayan Mountains ' towering peaks and cool lakes southwest of Tuva give rise to the tributaries that merge to become one of Siberia's major rivers, the Yenisei River, which flows north over 2000 miles to the Arctic Ocean.

Closer to the present, Lake Chad was first surveyed by Europeans in 1823, and it was considered to be one of the largest lakes in the world then.

The reservoir created by the Chocón dam, located on the Río Negro, is one of the country's largest manmade lakes.

Most of the water falling on earth finds its way to the oceans through a network of rivers, lakes and wetlands.

This has been ascertained from archaeological finds: they lived near streams and lakes, at first as fishermen and hunters, and later, herders.

Capybaras are semiaquatic mammals found throughout almost all countries of South America ( except Chile ) in densely forested areas near bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers, swamps, ponds and marshes, as well as flooded savannah and along rivers in tropical forest.

Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.

Improve 7,000 miles of fishing streams and 56,000 acres of lakes by stabilizing banks, planting streamside cover, and constructing channel improvements.

The spectacular upsurge in pleasure boating is markedly evident, expectedly, in the areas where boats have always been found: the natural lakes, rivers, and along the nation's coastline.

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Ten thousand twisty miles of shoreline frame the 30-odd lakes in the vast Tennessee River system that loops in and out of seven states.

At the end of the Devonian period (), the seas, rivers and lakes were teeming with life but the land was the realm of early plants and devoid of vertebrates though some, such as Ichthyostega, may have sometimes hauled themselves out of the water.

Meanwhile, in the ponds and lakes, fewer frogs means fewer tadpoles.

* Central Anatolian steppe: These dry grasslands cover the drier valleys and surround the saline lakes of central Anatolia, and include halophytic ( salt tolerant ) plant communities.

Also, some tracts of the roads lead to natural features such as springs, lakes, mountain tops and pinnacles.

According to Scott Simpson, the Gona Project's physical anthropologist, the fossil evidence from the Middle Awash indicates that both A. kadabba and A. ramidus lived in " a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with lakes, swamps and springs nearby ," but further research is needed to determine which habitat Ardipithecus at Gona preferred.

Averaging at least 1. 6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2. 5 km below sea level ; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur ( e. g., Lake Vostok ).

Other animals found in the relatively open habitats of the high Andes include the huemul, cougar, foxes in the genus Pseudalopex, and, for birds, certain species of tinamous ( notably members of the genus Nothoprocta ), Andean Goose, Giant Coot, flamingos ( mainly associated with hypersaline lakes ), Lesser Rhea, Andean Flicker, Diademed Sandpiper-plover, miners, sierra-finches and diuca-finches.

Another place popular with children is the Parque Papagayo which is a large family park which has life-sized replicas of a Spanish galleon and the space shuttle Columbia, three artificial lakes, aviary, skating rink, rides, go-karts and more.

During the summer they require plenty of water and are very effective on the margins of lakes or by running streams, where they thrive.

The most striking feature is the existence of two great lines of depression, due largely to the subsidence of whole segments of the Earth's crust, the lowest parts of which are occupied by vast lakes.

They are the most common heliozoa in fresh water, and are especially frequent in lakes and rivers, but a few are found in marine and soil habitats as well.

Of the rest of the land, 55. 2 % is settled ( buildings or roads ) and the remainder ( 4. 5 %) is non-productive ( rivers or lakes ).

or about 2. 4 % of the canton is considered unproductive, mostly lakes and streams.