List of Great Basin watersheds
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The Great Basin is the largest region of contiguous endorheic drainage basins
Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

 in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

 (United States and Mexico), and is encompassed by the Great Basin Divide
Great Basin Divide
The Great Basin Divide is the western continental divide that separates the Great Basin from the Pacific Ocean watershed. The water divide is the perimeter of the largest set of contiguous endorheic watersheds of North America, including six entire USGS watershed subregions...

. This is a list of the drainage basins in the Great Basin
Great Basin
The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America and is noted for its arid conditions and Basin and Range topography that varies from the North American low point at Badwater Basin to the highest point of the contiguous United States, less than away at the...

 that are over 500 sq mi (1,295 km²), listed by the state containing most of the basin.

Utah

  • Great Salt Lake
    Great Salt Lake
    The Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere, the fourth-largest terminal lake in the world. In an average year the lake covers an area of around , but the lake's size fluctuates substantially due to its...

     (Idaho, Utah, Wyoming) 19162 sq mi (49,629.4 km²)
    • Bear River
      Bear River (Utah)
      The Bear River is a river, approximately long, in southwestern Wyoming, southeastern Idaho, and northern Utah, in the United States. The largest tributary of the Great Salt Lake, it drains a mountainous area and farming valleys northeast of the lake and southeast of the Snake River Plain...

       (Idaho, Utah, Wyoming) 7561 sq mi (19,582.9 km²)
      • Malad River
        Malad River (Utah)
        The Malad River is a tributary of the Bear River in southeastern Idaho and northern Utah in the United States. The river flows southward, beginning northwest of Malad City, Idaho, crosses the Idaho-Utah state line just north of Portage, Utah, flows through Tremonton, and empties into the Bear...

         (Idaho, Utah) 768 sq mi (1,989.1 km²)
      • Little Bear River
        Little Bear River
        The Little Bear River is a tributary of the Bear River in northern Utah in the United States. It rises in the mountains east of Brigham City, where three forks join at Avon, then flows north to Paradise...

         (Idaho, Utah) 884 sq mi (2,289.5 km²)
      • Bear Lake (Idaho, Utah) 605 sq mi (1,566.9 km²)
    • Weber River
      Weber River
      The Weber River is a c. long river of northern Utah, USA. It begins in the northwest of the Uinta Mountains and empties into the Great Salt Lake. The Weber River was named for American fur trapper John Henry Weber.-Weber River:...

       (Utah, Wyoming) 2093 sq mi (5,420.8 km²)
    • Jordan River
      Jordan River (Utah)
      The Jordan River in the U.S. state of Utah is a river about long. Regulated by pumps at its headwaters at Utah Lake, it flows northward through the Salt Lake Valley and empties into the Great Salt Lake. Four of Utah's five largest cities—Salt Lake City, West Valley City, West Jordan and...

       (Utah) 3551 sq mi (9,197 km²)
      • Utah Lake
        Utah Lake
        Utah Lake is a freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Utah. On the western side of Utah Valley, the lake is overlooked by Mount Timpanogos and Mount Nebo. The lake's only river outlet, the Jordan River, is a tributary of the Great Salt Lake and is highly regulated with pumps. Evaporation accounts...

         (Utah) 2536 sq mi (6,568.2 km²)
        • Provo River
          Provo River (Utah)
          The Provo River is located in Utah County and Wasatch County, Utah, in the United States. It rises in the Uinta Mountains at Washington Lake and flows about southwest to Utah Lake at the city of Provo, Utah.-Course:...

           (Utah) 686 sq mi (1,776.7 km²)
        • Spanish Fork (Utah) 825 sq mi (2,136.7 km²)
    • Skull Valley (Utah) 814 sq mi (2,108.3 km²)
    • Deep Creek (Curlew Valley) (Idaho, Utah) 1033 sq mi (2,675.5 km²)
  • Pine Valley (Utah) 733 sq mi (1,898.5 km²)
  • Tule Valley
    Tule Valley
    Tule Valley, also known as White Valley, is a north-south trending endorheic valley within the Great Basin , Great Basin Desert , and Basin and Range Province of west-central Utah...

     (Utah) 951 sq mi (2,463.1 km²)
  • Rush Valley (Utah) 722 sq mi (1,870 km²)
  • Bonneville Salt Flats (Nevada, Utah) 8602 sq mi (22,279.1 km²)
    • Fish Springs Wash (Utah) 933 sq mi (2,416.5 km²)
    • Snake Valley (Nevada, Utah) 3119 sq mi (8,078.2 km²)
      • Hamlin Valley
        Hamlin Valley
        Hamlin Valley is a north-south trending valley of the Great Basin located near the Nevada–Utah state line. It is about long.Hamlin Valley lies between the Mountain Home Range and Indian Peak Range on the east and south, and the Needle Mountains, White Rock Mountains, and Limestone Hills on the...

         (Nevada, Utah) 884 sq mi (2,289.5 km²)
    • Deep Creek (Nevada, Utah) 501 sq mi (1,297.6 km²)
  • Newfoundland Evaporation Basin (Nevada, Utah) 4516 sq mi (11,696.4 km²)
    • Grouse Creek (Nevada, Utah) 2755 sq mi (7,135.4 km²)
      • Thousand Springs Creek (Nevada, Utah) 1534 sq mi (3,973 km²)
  • Sevier Lake
    Sevier Lake
    Sevier Lake is an intermittent and endorheic lake which lies in the lowest part of the Sevier Desert, Millard County, Utah. Like Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake, it is a remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Sevier Lake is fed primarily by the Beaver and Sevier rivers, and the additional inflow...

     (Utah) 9387 sq mi (24,312.2 km²)
    • Sevier River
      Sevier River
      The Sevier River , extending , is the longest Utah river entirely in the state and drains an extended chain of mountain farming valleys to the intermittent Sevier Lake...

       (Utah) 8591 sq mi (22,250.6 km²)
      • Beaver River (Utah) 1996 sq mi (5,169.6 km²)
      • San Pitch River (Utah) 861 sq mi (2,230 km²)
      • East Fork Sevier River (Utah) 1242 sq mi (3,216.8 km²)
  • Pavant Valley (Utah) 1108 sq mi (2,869.7 km²) Most of Pavant Vally drains to the Sevier River artificially via the Central Utah Canal.
  • Sevier Desert (Utah) 1029 sq mi (2,665.1 km²)
  • Mud Spring Wash (Utah) 1053 sq mi (2,727.3 km²)
    • Little Salt Lake (Utah) 503 sq mi (1,302.8 km²)
  • Escalante Desert
    Escalante Desert
    The Escalante Desert is a geographic Great Basin region and arid desert ecoregion, in the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, located in southwestern Utah.-Geography:...

     (Nevada, Utah) 1442 sq mi (3,734.8 km²)
  • Wah Wah Valley
    Wah Wah Valley
    Wah Wah Valley is an endorheic valley within the Basin and Range of west-central Utah. It is bound by the Wah Wah Mountains to the west and south and the San Francisco Mountains to the east...

     (Utah) 600 sq mi (1,554 km²)

Nevada

  • Carson Sink
    Carson Sink
    Carson Sink is a playa in the northeastern portion of the Carson Desert that was formerly the terminus of the Carson River. The sink is currently fed by drainage canals of the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District...

     (California, Nevada) 19839 sq mi (51,382.8 km²)
    • Humboldt River
      Humboldt River
      The Humboldt River runs through northern Nevada in the western United States. At approximately long it is the second longest river in the Great Basin, after the Bear River. It has no outlet to the ocean, but instead empties into the Humboldt Sink...

       (Nevada) 16753 sq mi (43,390.1 km²)
      • Little Humboldt River
        Little Humboldt River
        The Little Humboldt River is a tributary of the Humboldt River, approximately long, in northern Nevada in the western United States. It is an intermittent stream draining a rugged area on the edge of the Owyhee Desert in the Great Basin....

         1780 sq mi (4,610.2 km²)
      • Reese River
        Reese River
        The Reese River is a tributary of the Humboldt River, located in central Nevada in the western United States. It rises in the southern section of the Toiyabe Range, on the flanks of Arc Dome...

         (Nevada) 2377 sq mi (6,156.4 km²)
        • Cain Creek (Nevada) 519 sq mi (1,344.2 km²)
      • Rock Creek (Nevada) 746 sq mi (1,932.1 km²)
      • Coyote Creek (Crescent Valley) (Nevada) 1171 sq mi (3,032.9 km²)
        • Cooks Creek (Nevada) 637 sq mi (1,649.8 km²)
      • Pine Creek (Nevada) 1005 sq mi (2,602.9 km²)
      • South Fork Humboldt River
        South Fork Humboldt River
        The South Fork of the Humboldt River has its origins in a fan-shaped group of canyons draining the western slopes of the Ruby Mountains in northeastern Nevada. These headwaters run from Ruby Dome south to King Peak, and include Echo, Box, Kleckner, North Furlong, Long, Segunda, Drown, and...

         (Nevada) 1306 sq mi (3,382.5 km²)
        • Huntington Creek (Nevada) 795 sq mi (2,059 km²)
      • North Fork Humboldt River
        North Fork Humboldt River
        The North Fork of the Humboldt River has its origins on the north slopes of McAfee Peak in the Independence Mountains of northeastern Nevada. It quickly exits the mountains and turns southward for approximately , joining its waters with numerous other streams...

         (Nevada) 998 sq mi (2,584.8 km²)
      • Marys River (Nevada) 514 sq mi (1,331.3 km²)
    • Carson River
      Carson River
      The Carson River is a northwestern Nevada river that empties into the Carson Sink, an endorheic basin. The main stem of the river is long....

       (California, Nevada) 2585 sq mi (6,695.1 km²)
      • East Fork Carson River (California, Nevada) 572 sq mi (1,481.5 km²)
  • Stillwater Marsh (Nevada) 854 sq mi (2,211.8 km²)
  • Black Rock Desert
    Black Rock Desert
    The Black Rock Desert is an arid region in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan...

     (Nevada, Oregon) 8509 sq mi (22,038.2 km²)
    • Quinn River
      Quinn River
      The Quinn River, once known as the Queen River, is an intermittent river, approximately long, in the desert of northwestern Nevada in the United States. It drains an enclosed basin inside the larger Great Basin....

       (Nevada, Oregon) 7590 sq mi (19,658 km²)
      • Bottle Creek Slough (Desert Valley) (Nevada) 540 sq mi (1,398.6 km²)
  • High Rock Lake
    High Rock Lake
    High Rock Lake is the northernmost of the Uwharrie Lakes and the second largest lake in North Carolina behind Lake Norman. Its water surface covers and there are of shoreline. It begins at the confluence of the Yadkin River and the South Yadkin River. The lake's name is derived from neighboring...

     (Nevada) 665 sq mi (1,722.3 km²)
  • Smoke Creek Desert
    Smoke Creek Desert
    The Smoke Creek Desert is an arid region of northwestern Nevada, USA that lies to the north of Pyramid Lake, west of the Fox Range and east of the Smoke Creek Mountains. The southern end of the desert lies on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, and a rail line lies at the eastern edge...

     (California, Nevada) 1261 sq mi (3,266 km²)
  • Duck Lake (California, Nevada) 573 sq mi (1,484.1 km²)
  • Thousand Creek (Nevada, Oregon) 1037 sq mi (2,685.8 km²)
  • Pyramid Lake (California, Nevada) 3112 sq mi (8,060 km²)
    • Truckee River
      Truckee River
      The Truckee River is a stream in the U.S. states of California and Nevada. The river is about long. Its endorheic drainage basin is about , of which about are in Nevada. The Truckee is the sole outlet of Lake Tahoe and drains part of the high Sierra Nevada, emptying into Pyramid Lake in the Great...

       (California, Nevada) 2332 sq mi (6,039.9 km²)
      • Lake Tahoe
        Lake Tahoe
        Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States. At a surface elevation of , it is located along the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America. Its depth is , making it the USA's second-deepest...

         (California, Nevada) 507 sq mi (1,313.1 km²)
  • Blue Wing Flat (Granite Springs Valley) (Nevada) 975 sq mi (2,525.2 km²)
  • Walker Lake
    Walker Lake (Nevada)
    Walker Lake is a natural lake, 50.3 mi² in area, in the Great Basin in western Nevada in the United States. It is 18 mi long and 7 mi wide, located in northwestern Mineral County along the eastern side of the Wassuk Range, approximately 75 mi southeast of Reno...

     (California, Nevada) 3561 sq mi (9,222.9 km²)
    • Walker River
      Walker River (Nevada)
      The Walker River is a river in west central Nevada in the United States, approximately long. It drains an arid portion of the Great Basin southeast of Reno, with a watershed that extends into the Sierra Nevada mountains. It flows within an enclosed basin, providing the principal inflow of Walker...

       (California, Nevada) 2753 sq mi (7,130.2 km²)
      • East Walker River
        East Walker River
        The East Walker River is a tributary of the Walker River, approximately long, in eastern California and western Nevada in the United States. It drains part of the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in the watershed of Walker Lake in the Great Basin....

         (California, Nevada) 1201 sq mi (3,110.6 km²)
      • West Walker River
        West Walker River
        The West Walker River is a tributary of the Walker River, approximately long, in eastern California and western Nevada in the United States. It drains part of the Sierra Nevada range along the California-Nevada border in the watershed of Walker Lake in the Great Basin.It rises from snowmelt in the...

         (California, Nevada) 859 sq mi (2,224.8 km²)
  • Buffalo Valley (Nevada) 500 sq mi (1,295 km²)
  • Buena Vista Valley (Nevada) 736 sq mi (1,906.2 km²)
  • Humboldt Salt Marsh
    Humboldt Salt Marsh
    The Humboldt Salt Marsh in the Humboldt Basin of northeastern Nevada is a wetland that is 1 of 2 within the state .-References:...

     (Nevada) 2083 sq mi (5,394.9 km²)
    • Spring Creek (Nevada) 801 sq mi (2,074.6 km²)
  • Gabbs Valley (Nevada) 1273 sq mi (3,297.1 km²)
  • Big Smokey Valley (Nevada) 2049 sq mi (5,306.9 km²)
    • Peavine Creek (Nevada) 1727 sq mi (4,472.9 km²)
      • Ione Valley (Nevada) 673 sq mi (1,743.1 km²)
  • Grass Valley (Nevada) 592 sq mi (1,533.3 km²)
  • Rock Creek (Nevada) 590 sq mi (1,528.1 km²)
  • Wadsworth Creek (Monitor Valley) (Nevada) 525 sq mi (1,359.7 km²)
  • Diamond Valley
    Diamond Valley
    Diamond Valley is a basin located in central Nevada in the western United States, between the Sulphur Spring Range and the Diamond Mountains. The valley is located almost entirely within Eureka County, but the northern end crosses into Elko County. The valley is up to 12 miles wide and over 45...

     (Nevada) 2598 sq mi (6,728.8 km²)
    • Slough Creek (Nevada) 2272 sq mi (5,884.5 km²)
      • Antelope Wash (Nevada) 560 sq mi (1,450.4 km²)
      • Coils Creek (Nevada) 987 sq mi (2,556.3 km²)
        • Stoneberger Creek (Nevada) 749 sq mi (1,939.9 km²)
  • Newark Lake (Nevada) 1444 sq mi (3,739.9 km²)
    • Fish Creek (Nevada) 623 sq mi (1,613.6 km²)
  • Long Valley (Nevada) 647 sq mi (1,675.7 km²)
  • Franklin Lake (Nevada) 648 sq mi (1,678.3 km²)
  • Cole Creek (Independence Valley) (Nevada) 1025 sq mi (2,654.7 km²)
  • Yelland Dry Lake (Nevada) 1191 sq mi (3,084.7 km²)
    • Spring Valley Creek (Nevada) 694 sq mi (1,797.5 km²)
  • Goshute Lake (Nevada) 1809 sq mi (4,685.3 km²)
    • Duck Creek (Nevada) 1510 sq mi (3,910.9 km²)
  • Goshute Valley
    Goshute Valley
    The Goshute Valley is an endorheic landform of the Great Basin. The towns of Oasis and Cobre are in the valley's north, and the central and north of the valley contains broken flatlands, with short washes draining from the surrounding mountain ranges....

     (Nevada) 1504 sq mi (3,895.3 km²)
  • Lake Valley
    Lake Valley (Nevada)
    Lake Valley is a 60-mile long valley in northeast Lincoln County, Nevada. The North Lake Valley is an endorheic basin; South Lake Valley contains Patterson Wash, a northwest headwater tributary to the Meadow Valley Wash; the northeast headwater section of Meadow Valley Wash is a shorter drainage...

     (Nevada) 554 sq mi (1,434.9 km²)
  • Dry Lake Valley
    Dry Lake Valley
    Dry Lake Valley is a Basin and Range landform in Lincoln County within the Dry Lake Watershed between the North Pahroc Range to the west and the Black Canyon Wilderness to the east. To the south is the Delamar Valley between the South Pahroc Range to the west and the Delamar Mountains to the east....

     (Nevada) 897 sq mi (2,323.2 km²)
  • Fish Lake Valley
    Fish Lake Valley
    The Fish Lake Valley is a 25 mi long endorheic valley in southwest Nevada that is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins. The alluvial valley lies just northwest of Death Valley and borders the southeast, and central-northeast flank of the massif of the White Mountains of California...

     (California, Nevada) 983 sq mi (2,546 km²)
  • Mud Lake
    Mud Lake (Nevada)
    There are several lakes named Mud Lake within the U.S. state of Nevada.* Mud Lake, Churchill County, Nevada. * Mud Lake, Douglas County, Nevada. * Mud Lake, Elko County, Nevada. * Mud Lake, Humboldt County, Nevada....

     (Nevada) 1963 sq mi (5,084.1 km²)
    • Stone Cabin Creek (Nevada) 998 sq mi (2,584.8 km²)
    • Ralston Valley (Nevada) 747 sq mi (1,934.7 km²)
  • Clayton Valley (Nevada) 555 sq mi (1,437.4 km²)
  • Butterfield Marsh (Nevada) 3780 sq mi (9,790.2 km²)
    • Railroad Valley
      Railroad Valley
      Railroad Valley is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins in the Tonopah Basin and is ~80 miles long north-south and up to 20 miles wide, with some southern areas running southwest to northeast. The southern end of the valley begins near Gray Top Mountain and stretches north all the way to...

       (Nevada) 1959 sq mi (5,073.8 km²)
      • Hot Creek (Nevada) 1061 sq mi (2,748 km²)
    • Duckwater Creek (Nevada) 904 sq mi (2,341.3 km²)
  • Sand Springs Wash (Nevada) 507 sq mi (1,313.1 km²)
  • Gold Flat (Nevada) 685 sq mi (1,774.1 km²)
  • Sarcobatus Flat
    Sarcobatus Flat
    Sarcobatus Flat is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basinsthat, along with Cactus Flat, is an eponym for the larger Cactus-Sarcobatus Watershed. The flat is in the Tonopah Basin and is demarcated from Amargosa Valley of the Mojave Desert to the south by the arid footslopes of the Central Basin and...

     (Nevada) 1237 sq mi (3,203.8 km²)
    • China Wash (Lida Valley) (Nevada) 538 sq mi (1,393.4 km²)
  • Coal Valley (Nevada) 952 sq mi (2,465.7 km²)
  • Sand Spring Valley (Nevada) 699 sq mi (1,810.4 km²)
  • Groom Lake
    Groom Lake
    Groom Lake is a salt flat in Nevada used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site airport on the north of the Area 51 USAF military installation. The lake at elevation is ~ from north to south and from east to west at its widest point...

     (Nevada) 669 sq mi (1,732.7 km²)
  • Desert Valley (Nevada) 990 sq mi (2,564.1 km²)
    • Tikaboo Valley (Nevada) 615 sq mi (1,592.8 km²)
  • Indian Springs Valley (Nevada) 661 sq mi (1,712 km²)
  • Mesquite Valley (California, Nevada) 504 sq mi (1,305.4 km²)
  • Eldorado Valley
    Eldorado Valley
    Eldorado Valley, or El Dorado Valley, is a Great Basin valley in the Mojave Desert southeast of Las Vegas and southwest of Boulder City, Nevada...

     (Nevada) 534 sq mi (1,383.1 km²)

Oregon

  • Malheur Lake
    Malheur Lake
    Malheur Lake is a lake in an arid region of eastern Oregon, United States near Burns, Oregon. The lake is fed by Donner und Blitzen River from the south and the Silvies River from the north. Malheur Lake has no outlet, though water escapes through ground seepage and by evaporation; widespread...

     (Oregon) 3062 sq mi (7,930.5 km²)
    • Malheur Slough (Oregon) 514 sq mi (1,331.3 km²)
    • Silvies River
      Silvies River
      The Silvies River flows for about through Grant and Harney counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. The river drains of the northern Harney Basin....

       (Oregon) 1319 sq mi (3,416.2 km²)
    • Donner und Blitzen River
      Donner und Blitzen River
      The Donner und Blitzen River is a river on the eastern Oregon high desert which drains a relatively arid basin, the southern portion of Harney Basin, from roughly 20 to 80 miles south-southeast of Burns including Malheur National Wildlife Refuge...

       (Oregon) 790 sq mi (2,046.1 km²)
  • Harney Lake
    Harney Lake
    Harney Lake is a shallow alkali lake basin located in southeast Oregon, United States, approximately thirty miles south of the town of Burns. The lake lies within the boundary of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and is the lowest point in the Blitzen Valley drainage.- History :The lake has been...

     (Oregon) 1810 sq mi (4,687.9 km²)
    • Silver Creek
      Silver Creek (Harney County, Oregon)
      Silver Creek is an stream of Oregon which drains a portion of the endorheic Harney Basin to Harney Lake. Arising in the Blue Mountains, it flows generally southeast, although much of the stream is intermittent...

       (Oregon) 1502 sq mi (3,890.2 km²)
  • Silver Lake
    Silver Lake (Oregon)
    Silver Lake is a lake in Lake County, Oregon, United States. It is east of the community of Silver Lake. It is unknown who first gave the lake its descriptive name. Central Oregon residents attribute it to John C. Frémont, although no proof has been found, and he would not have seen the lake on...

     (Oregon) 798 sq mi (2,066.8 km²)
    • Silver Creek (Oregon) 677 sq mi (1,753.4 km²)
  • Lake Abert
    Lake Abert
    Lake Abert is a large, shallow, alkali lake in Lake County, Oregon, United States. It is approximately long and wide at its widest point. It is located northwest of the small, unincorporated community of Valley Falls, Oregon. The lake was named in honor of Colonel John James Abert by explorer...

     (Oregon) 897 sq mi (2,323.2 km²)
    • Chewaucan River
      Chewaucan River
      The Chewaucan River is part of the Great Basin drainage. It flows through the Fremont–Winema National Forests, Bureau of Land Management land, and private property in southern Oregon. Its watershed consists of of conifer forest, marsh, and rural pasture land...

       (Oregon) 628 sq mi (1,626.5 km²)
  • Bluejoint Lake (Warner Lakes) (California, Nevada, Oregon) 1896 sq mi (4,910.6 km²)
    • Crump Lake (California, Nevada, Oregon) 1084 sq mi (2,807.5 km²)
  • Guano Lake (Nevada, Oregon) 916 sq mi (2,372.4 km²)
  • Catlow Valley (Oregon) 1352 sq mi (3,501.7 km²)
    • Guano Slough (Oregon) 501 sq mi (1,297.6 km²)
  • Alvord Lake
    Alvord Lake (Oregon)
    Alvord Lake is a seasonal shallow alkali lake in Harney County of the U.S. state of Oregon. Its elevation is . It is located about southeast of Alvord Desert in the Alvord Basin and serves as terminus for all its streams. Its water level varies from dry to several feet deep...

     (Nevada, Oregon) 706 sq mi (1,828.5 km²)

California

  • Goose Lake
    Goose Lake (Oregon-California)
    Goose Lake is a large alkaline glacial lake located in the Goose Lake Valley on the Oregon-California border. The north end of the lake is in Lake County, Oregon and the south end is in Modoc County, California. The mountains at the north end of the lake are part of the Fremont National Forest...

     (California, Oregon) 1088 sq mi (2,817.9 km²)
  • Madeline Plains (California, Nevada) 714 sq mi (1,849.3 km²)
  • Honey Lake
    Honey Lake
    Honey Lake is an endorheic sink within the Honey Lake Valley located in northeastern California, near the Nevada border. Summer evaporation reduces the lake to a lower level of 12 km² and creates an alkali flat....

     (California, Nevada) 1905 sq mi (4,933.9 km²)
    • Susan River
      Susan River (California)
      The Susan River is a northeastern California river of approximately length that drains from an arid plateau of volcanic highlands along the Great Basin Divide to intermittent Honey Lake. The river flows from eastern Lassen County from east of Lassen Volcanic National Park generally east past...

       (California) 1073 sq mi (2,779.1 km²)
  • Mono Lake
    Mono Lake
    Mono Lake is a large, shallow saline lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean...

     (California, Nevada) 785 sq mi (2,033.1 km²)
  • Owens Lake
    Owens Lake
    Owens Lake is a mostly dry lake in the Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County, California. It is located about south of Lone Pine, California...

     (California, Nevada) 3501 sq mi (9,067.5 km²)
    • Owens River
      Owens River
      The Owens River is a river in southeastern California in the United States, approximately long. It drains into and through the Owens Valley, an arid basin between the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and the western faces of the Inyo and White Mountains. The river terminates at Owens Lake, but...

       (California, Nevada) 2903 sq mi (7,518.7 km²)
      • Spring Canyon Creek (California, Nevada) 743 sq mi (1,924.4 km²)
  • Eureka Valley (California, Nevada) 564 sq mi (1,460.8 km²)
  • Salt Lake (California) 742 sq mi (1,921.8 km²)
  • Amargosa River
    Amargosa River
    The Amargosa River is an intermittent waterway, long, in southern Nevada and eastern California in the United States. It drains a high desert region, the Amargosa Valley in the Amargosa Desert northwest of Las Vegas, into the Mojave Desert, and finally into Death Valley where it disappears into...

     (California, Nevada) 8785 sq mi (22,753 km²)
    • Salt Creek (California, Nevada) 2307 sq mi (5,975.1 km²)
      • Death Valley Wash (California, Nevada) 1496 sq mi (3,874.6 km²)
    • Salt Creek (California) 1330 sq mi (3,444.7 km²)
      • Kingston Wash (California) 537 sq mi (1,390.8 km²)
    • Rock Valley (California, Nevada) 655 sq mi (1,696.4 km²)
    • Fortymile Canyon (California, Nevada) 1769 sq mi (4,581.7 km²)
  • Panamint Valley
    Panamint Valley
    The Panamint Valley is a long basin located east of the Argus Range and Slate Range, and west of the Panamint Range in the northeastern reach of the Mojave Desert, in eastern California, United States.-Geography:...

     (northern) (California) 570 sq mi (1,476.3 km²)
  • Panamint Valley
    Panamint Valley
    The Panamint Valley is a long basin located east of the Argus Range and Slate Range, and west of the Panamint Range in the northeastern reach of the Mojave Desert, in eastern California, United States.-Geography:...

     (southern) (California) 916 sq mi (2,372.4 km²)
  • China Lake (California) 1175 sq mi (3,043.2 km²)
  • Searles Lake
    Searles Lake
    Searles Lake is an endorheic dry lake in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, with the mining community, Trona on its western shore. The evaporite basin is approximately long and at its widest point, yielding 1.7 million tons annually of industrial minerals within the basin to...

     (California) 710 sq mi (1,838.9 km²)
  • Koehn Lake
    Koehn Lake
    Koehn Lake is a dry lake, and seasonally endorheic lake, in the Fremont Valley of the Mojave Desert of Kern County, California, northeast of California City and east of Red Rock Canyon State Park.The lake is approximately long and at its widest point....

     (California) 896 sq mi (2,320.6 km²)
  • Rogers Dry Lake
    Rogers Dry Lake
    Rogers Dry Lake is an endorheic desert salt pan in the Mojave Desert of Kern County, California. The lake derives its name from the Anglicization from the Spanish name, Rodriguez Dry Lake. It is the central part of Edwards Air Force Base as its hard surface provides a natural extension to the...

     (California) 831 sq mi (2,152.3 km²)
  • Rosamond Lake
    Rosamond Lake
    Rosamond Lake is a natural dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert of Kern- and Los Angeles County, California. The shores of the lake are entirely within the borders of Edwards Air Force Base, approximately from Lancaster. The lake is adjacent to Rogers Dry Lake which through the Holocene, together...

     (California) 1098 sq mi (2,843.8 km²)
  • Harper Lake
    Harper Lake
    Harper Lake is a dry lake located in the Mojave Desert near the small community of Lockhart in northwestern San Bernardino County of Southern California...

     (California) 765 sq mi (1,981.3 km²)
  • Silver Lake
    Silver Lake (Mojave)
    Silver Lake is a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, along Interstate 15, northeast of Barstow.-History:...

     2474 sq mi (6,407.6 km²)
    • Soda Lake 2309 sq mi (5,980.3 km²)
      • Mojave River
        Mojave River
        The Mojave River is an intermittent river in the eastern San Bernardino Mountains and Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California. The river is notable as most of its flow is underground, while its surface channels remain dry most of the time, with the exception of the headwaters and several...

         (California) 1709 sq mi (4,426.3 km²)
      • Kelso Wash (California) 727 sq mi (1,882.9 km²)
  • Ivanpah Lake (California, Nevada) 820 sq mi (2,123.8 km²)
  • Dale Lake (California) 544 sq mi (1,409 km²)
  • Bristol Lake (California) 713 sq mi (1,846.7 km²)
  • Cadiz Lake (California) 1639 sq mi (4,245 km²)
    • Schuyler Wash (California) 1057 sq mi (2,737.6 km²)
      • Watson Wash (California) 533 sq mi (1,380.5 km²)
  • Danby Lake
    Danby Lake
    Danby Lake is a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, northwest of Blythe. The lake is approximately long and at its widest point.-External links:*...

     (California) 1110 sq mi (2,874.9 km²)
    • Homer Wash (California) 544 sq mi (1,409 km²)
  • Ford Dry Lake (California) 2066 sq mi (5,350.9 km²)
    • Palen Lake (California) 1377 sq mi (3,566.4 km²)
      • Pinto Wash (California) 709 sq mi (1,836.3 km²)
  • Salton Sea
    Salton Sea
    The Salton Sea is a shallow, saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, predominantly in California's Imperial Valley. The lake occupies the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink in the Colorado Desert of Imperial and Riverside counties in Southern California. Like Death...

     (California, Mexico) 6022 sq mi (15,596.9 km²)
    • Whitewater River
      Whitewater River (California)
      The Whitewater River is a small permanent stream in western Riverside County, California, except for a small upstream portion in southwestern San Bernardino County. Its headwaters are in the San Bernardino Mountains and 'mouth'—terminus in the Colorado Desert...

       (California) 1501 sq mi (3,887.6 km²)
    • San Felipe Creek (California, Mexico) 1481 sq mi (3,835.8 km²)
      • Carrizo Creek (California, Mexico) 570 sq mi (1,476.3 km²)
    • New River
      New River (Mexico – United States)
      The New River flows north from near Cerro Prieto, through the city of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, into the United States through the city of Calexico, California towards the Salton Sea...

       (California, Mexico) 664 sq mi (1,719.8 km²)
    • Alamo River
      Alamo River
      The Alamo River is a river flowing west and north from the Mexicali Valley across the Imperial Valley . The river drains into the Salton Sea....

       (California, Mexico) 647 sq mi (1,675.7 km²)

Mexico

  • Laguna Salada
    Laguna Salada (Mexico)
    Laguna Salada is a vast dry lake some 10 meters below sea level in the Sonoran Desert of Baja California, southwest of Mexicali. The lake's shape vaguely resembles a rhombus. When dry, the flatness of the exposed lake bed sediments makes it a favoured location for recreational driving...

    (Mexico) 1680 sq mi (4,351.2 km²)
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