Lake Okeechobee
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Lake Okeechobee is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the eighth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the largest natural freshwate
Photographed from space, 2000
Lake Okeechobee, from Canal Point, Florida
Lake Okeechobee from space in July 2016
Lake Okeechobee from Pahokee
Kissimmee River
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The Kissimmee River is a river in south-central Florida, United States, that forms the north part of the Everglades wetlands area. The river begins at East Lake Tohopekaliga south of Orlando, flowing
Lake Okeechobee
…with an average depth of only 9 feet (2.7 m). It is the largest lake in Florida and the southeastern United States, and is too large to see across. The Kissimmee River, located directly north of Lake Okeechobee, is the lake's primary source. All of Lake Okeechobee was included in the boundaries of Palm Beach County…
A stretch of the straightened and channelized Kissimmee River in central Florida
A portion of the C-38 canal, finished in 1971, now backfilled to restore the Kissimmee River floodplain to a more natural state