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From : shanghaitraveler
Added: Sep 22, 2008
WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY. CLICK BY VIEW COUNT. In one of the lowest, driest places in North America sits the Salton Sea, which is really a man-made lake, in a desert basin. It is Californias largest body of water, approximately 35 miles north of the Mexican border and 130 miles east of San Diego, in what was once the northern extension of the Gulf of California (see diagram). The Salton Seas surface is approximately 227 feet below sea level. It covers 381 square miles and averages 31 feet deep (maximum depth is 51 feet). On three sides it is bordered by mountains. There is no outlet for its Water except for evaporation, which occurs at a high rate because of the hot and dry climate. Although freshwater feeds it, the sea is now 25 percent saltier than the ocean.
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