Buena Vista Lake

Buena Vista Lake

Location	San Joaquin Valley Kern County, California
Lake type	dry lake
Primary inflows	Kern River Buena Vista Slough
Basin countries	United States

Surface area	60 to 150 square miles
Average depth	3.3 m (11 ft)
Surface elevation	88 m (289 ft)

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Buena Vista Lake, is a former fresh-water lake now a dry lake in Kern County, California in the Tulare Lake Basin in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California.

Buena Vista Lake was the second largest of several similar lakes in the Tulare Lake basin, and was fed by the waters of the Kern River. The Kern River's flow went into Buena Vista Lake southwest through the site Bakersfield via its main distributary channels or south through the Kern River Slough distributary into Kern Lake and then into Buena Vista Lake via Buena Vista Slough.

In times when Buena Vista Lake overflowed it first backed up into Kern Lake making one large lake. When this larger lake overflowed it flowed out through the Kern River channel northwest of Buena Vista Lake through tule marshland and Goose Lake, into Tulare Lake.

In the mid 20th century, Buena Vista Lake dried up after its tributary river was diverted into Isabella Dam and for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses.

Today Lake Webb and Lake Evans occupy the lakebed of the northern shore the former Buena Vista Lake.^[2]

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Tulare Basin hydrography

Kings River	North Fork Kings River · South Fork Kings River · Middle Fork Kings River · Roaring River · Kings Canyon · Pine Flat Dam · Pine Flat Lake · Rodgers Crossing Dam (proposed)

Kaweah River	North Fork Kaweah River · Middle Fork Kaweah River · Marble Fork Kaweah River · East Fork Kaweah River · South Fork Kaweah River · Lime Kiln Creek · Paradise Creek · Horse Creek · St. John's River · Kaweah Canyon · Mineral King · Terminus Dam · Lake Kaweah

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Kern River	Golden Trout Creek · Little Kern River · Rock Creek · South Fork Kern River · Canebrake Creek · Clear Creek · Poso Creek · Isabella Dam · Lake Isabella · Kern River Canyon · Kern River Slough · Kern Lake · Buena Vista Slough · Buena Vista Lake · Lake Webb · Lake Evans→

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