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Lake Cahuilla



Prehistoric Lake Cahuilla (also known as Lake LeConte and Blake Sea) was an extensive freshwater lake that filled the Coachella, Imperial, and Mexicali valleys of southeastern California and northeastern Baja California during the centuries prior to Spanish entry into the region. The Salton Sea (about 55 kilometers long, 25 kilometers wide, and at an elevation of 65 meters below sea level), which was accidentally created in 1905, is a much smaller analog of its prehistoric predecessor, Lake Cahuilla (about 180 kilometers long, 50 kilometers wide, and rising to 12 meters above sea level, drowning the present sites of the cities of Mexicali, El Centro, and Indio).



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