The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline body of water in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California in Mexico.
Salton Sea
Yuma Project – Dry bed of Colorado River below Imperial Intake (1906)
The New River passes from Mexicali, Baja California, to the Imperial Valley, and on to the Salton Sea.
Abandoned, salt-encrusted structures on the Salton Sea shore at Bombay Beach
Riverside County, California
Riverside County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,418,185, making it the fourth-most populous county in California and the 10th-most populous in the United States. The name was derived from the city of Riverside, which is the county seat.
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