Salton Sea

California · United States of America

Salton Sea, United States of America
Photo: NASA, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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winter and spring
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A large, shrinking saline lake in the desert of southern California, formed by an accidental Colorado River breach in 1905. Its shoreline and abandoned resort towns have a haunting, surreal quality.

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