It was named for the nearby Miami River, itself named for the Mayaimi Indians who previously lived around Lake Okeechobee.

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of, of which ( or 73. 81 %) is land and ( or 26. 19 %) is water, much of it in the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Okeechobee.

* Hendry County, Florida-southwest ( only point of contiguity is in the center of Lake Okeechobee )

* Glades County, Florida-southwest ( only point of contiguity is in the center of Lake Okeechobee )

It was named for the Lake Okeechobee, which was itself named for Hitchiti words oka ( water ) and chobi ( big ).

Osceola County reached all the way down to Lake Okeechobee until 1917 when Okeechobee County was formed.

Southern third of the Florida Peninsula, showing the area managed by the South Florida Water Management District, Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, Big Cypress National Preserve, the South Florida Metropolitan Area, the Ten Thousand Islands, and Florida Bay.

The system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee.

The water quality of Lake Okeechobee, a water source for South Florida, became a significant concern.

Willoughby described the water as healthy and wholesome, with numerous springs, and 10, 000 alligators " more or less " in Lake Okeechobee.

Hunting often went unchecked ; in one trip, a Lake Okeechobee hunter killed 250 alligators and 172 otters.

Two catastrophic hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its levees, killing thousands of people.

Control of the Hoover Dike and the waters of Lake Okeechobee were delegated to federal powers: the United States declared legal limits of the lake to between.

An extended drought occurred in the 1930s ; with the wall preventing water from leaving Lake Okeechobee and canals and ditches removing other water, the Everglades became parched.

In the northern Everglades were Water Conservation Areas ( WCAs ), and the Everglades Agricultural Area ( EAA ) bordering to the south of Lake Okeechobee.

Further problems with the environment arose when a vast algal bloom appeared in one-fifth of Lake Okeechobee in 1986.

Bodies of water including Lake Okeechobee, the Caloosahatchee River, St. Lucie estuary, Lake Worth Lagoon, Biscayne Bay, Florida Bay and the Everglades reflected drastic water level changes, hypersalinity, and dramatic changes in marine and freshwater ecosystems.

The area, which includes of land, would then be rehabilitated and water flow from Lake Okeechobee would be restored.

Most residential lots in the community back up on canals that feed into Lake Okeechobee.

Moore Haven is located on the southwest shoreline of Lake Okeechobee.

It was ideally located at the apex of Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee Canal.

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The area beside Lake Okeechobee was once used as a fishing camp by the Seminole Indians.

Memphis stinkpotters like McKellar Lake, inside the city limits, and sailors look for autumn winds at Arkabutla Lake where fall racing is now in progress.

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

The main basin is the Mus Valley, west of Lake Van.

Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).

* 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.

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

Most of Armenia is drained by the Araks or its tributary, the Hrazdan, which flows from Lake Sevan.

Another environmental concern is a significant drop in Lake Sevan's water level because of drawdowns for irrigation and the diversion of water to hydroelectric plants to compensate for the electric power lost through the inactivity of the nuclear plant at Metsamor.

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

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 ).

Shown is a sign indicating an accessible fishing platform at Drano Lake, Washington ( state ) | Washington.

* 1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7. 5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

Towards the south the two lines converge and give place to one great valley ( occupied by Lake Nyasa ), the southern part of which is less distinctly due to rifting and subsidence than the rest of the system.

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.

There is, however, in the centre a circular basin occupied by Lake Tsana.

The first is being planned for Lake Havasu City with programs available as early as fall 2012.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

* 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.

Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield.

Though the name Area 51 is used in official Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documentation, other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport.