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8 largest lakes in Central America

8 lakes, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The lakes

  1. 1Lake Nicaragua8,264 km²
  2. 2Lake Managua1,042 km²
  3. 3Lake Izabal590 km²
  4. 4Lago de Atitlán130 km²
  5. 5Laguna de Wouhnta101 km²
  6. 6Lake Petén Itzá99 km²
  7. 7Lake Yojoa90 km²
  8. 8Lake Ilopango72 km²

Surface area in km²: the Largest Lakes set’s figure for its lakes, else Wikidata’s (P2046) where it fits the outline, else the area of the outline. Seasonal salt pans keep their recorded figure; their area varies. Every named lake Natural Earth maps at 1:10m (with its supplements for Europe, North America and Australia), and every lake of the Largest Lakes set. The Caspian Sea counts as a lake, as in that set; coastal lagoons (the Vistula Lagoon, the Black Sea limans) do not. Countries are those on its shores, from the outlines. Natural lakes only: reservoirs (artificial lakes behind a dam, as Natural Earth or Wikidata mark them) are left out. Central America: what lies inside the region’s outline, by each item’s point (a lake’s centre, a river’s mouth, a summit).

On the map

Map of 8 largest lakes in Central America, 8 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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