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Crater Lake

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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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53.35 1
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1. Crater Lake (Wikipedia)
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  • Infobox, area
    area = 20.6 sqmi
  • Shaped By: Caldera Formation, Lead paragraph
    Crater Lake (Klamath: Giiwas) is a volcanic crater lake in south-central Oregon in the Western United States.
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Wikidata: Crater Lake
Wikidata Q329266, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source

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