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By the time of later French contact, for instance in the early 17th century with Samuel de Champlain, the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee: Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca, were allied in the Iroquois Confederacy, based in present-day New York.
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Soon after the New Year 1953 they moved into Manoir de Ban, a 37-acre estate overlooking the Lake Geneva in Corsier-sur-Vevey.
* The Hoya de Enriquillo or Neiba Valley is a remarkable valley, with a west-east direction, of low altitude ( on average 50 m with some points below sea level ) and with a great salt lake: the Enriquillo Lake.
* 1738 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
Map of Lac de Frontenac ( now Lake Ontario ), showing Teiaiagon and Lac Taronto ( now Lake Simcoe ).
In 1632 and 1656 is was referred to as Lac de St. Louis or Lake St. Louis by Samuel de Champlain and cartographer Nicolas Sanson respectively ( likely for Louis XIV of France ) In 1660 Jesuit historian Francis Creuxius coined the name Lacus Ontarius.
A French map produced in 1712 ( currently in the Canadian Museum of Civilization ), created by military engineer Jean-Baptiste de Couagne, identified Lake Ontario as " Lac Frontenac ".
One of the first Europeans in this area was Pierre de Troyes, who built a post on Lake Abitibi when he was on his way to capture English HBC posts on James Bay in 1686.
The cities of San Luis Potosí in Mexico ; St. Louis, Missouri ; St. Louis, Michigan ; San Luis, Arizona ; San Luis, Colorado ; Saint-Louis du Sénégal ; Saint-Louis in Alsace ; as well as Lake Saint-Louis in Quebec, the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in California and rue Saint Louis of Pondicherry are among the many places named after the king and saint.
Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada or (, Lago Cocibolca, Mar Dulce, Gran Lago, Gran Lago Dulce, or Lago de Granada ) is a vast freshwater lake in Nicaragua of tectonic origin.
Samuel de Champlain reached Lake Huron in 1615, and French missionaries began to establish posts along the Great Lakes.
Lake Superior's Isles Phelipeaux and Pontchartrain, which appeared on explorers ' maps for many years, were named for Louis Phélypeaux, marquis de La Vrilliere, comte de Pontchartrain.
Millions of years ago, during the Miocene, the Rio Grande ended at the southern end of the Rio Grande Rift in Lake Cabeza de Vaca.
** Janeros ( lived in NW Chihuahua, SE Arizona and NE Sonora in the Animas Mountains, Florida Mountains, south into the Sierra San Luis, Sierra del Tigre, Sierra de Carcay, Sierra de Boca Grande, west beyond the Aros River to Bavispe, east along the Janos River and Casas Grandes River toward the Lake Guzmán in the northern part of the Guzmán Basin and traded at the presidio of Janos, likely called Dzilthdaklizhéndé-‘ Blue Mountain People ’, northern local group )
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Cayuga Lake ( or )&# 160 ; is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area ( marginally smaller than Seneca Lake ) and second largest in volume.
The city of Ithaca, New York, site of Ithaca College and Cornell University, is located at the southern end of Cayuga Lake.
Villages and settlements along the east shore of Cayuga Lake include Myers, King Ferry, Aurora, Levanna, Union Springs, and Cayuga.
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 AES Cayuga electrical generating station operates in the Town of Lansing, on the east shore of Cayuga Lake.
In the late 1960s, citizens successfully opposed the construction of an 830-MW nuclear power plant on the shore of Cayuga Lake.
Cayuga Lake, like nearby Seneca Lake, is also the site of a phenomenon known as the Guns of the Seneca, mysterious cannon-like booms heard in the surrounding area.
The eleven Finger Lakes from east to west are: Otisco Lake, Skaneateles Lake, Owasco Lake, Cayuga Lake, Seneca Lake, Keuka Lake, Canandaigua Lake, Honeoye Lake, Canadice Lake, Hemlock Lake, and Conesus Lake.
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