Lake Nicaragua: largest lake in central America

Lake Managua: also located in Nicaragua (second largest in Central America)

Lake Baikal - deepest lake

Caspian Sea - largest lake

Great Lakes

Quick Facts

→ Surface area order: Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario

→ Volume order: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Ontario, Erie

→ Depth order:

→ First discovered by Samuel de Champlain

→ Created by glaciers

Lake Superior

• Borders Ontario, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin
• Drains into Lake Huron via St. Mary’s River
• Third largest lake in world by volume
• Largest lake in world by surface area
• Ojibwe name is “gichi-gami” meaning (Longfellow wrote it “Gitche Gamee” in poem The Song of Hiawatha)