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A lake in the U.S. state of Oregon occupying the caldera of the collapsed volcano Mount Mazama, and the deepest lake in the United States. Fed only by rain and snowmelt with no inlet or outlet streams, its water is among the clearest and bluest of any lake in the world.

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