Largest lakes & reservoirs in Central Valley Region, CA by water volume
The estimated volume of water that a lake contains is measured at the lake’s normal elevation. By this measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is Siberia’s Lake Baikal.Water Volume can be measured in acre-feet, in cubic miles, or in cubic kilometers. One acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover one acre (43,560 square feet) to a depth of one foot. One cubic mile equals 3,379,200 acre-feet. One cubic kilometer equals 810,713 acre-feet. 1 acre-foot is equal to 325,851 US gallons. Siberia’s Lake Baikal contains about 6,276,367,740,000,000 gallons of freshwater – nearly 1 million gallons for every living person on earth.
The other – and more widely used – measure of a lake’s size is the lake’s surface acreage. By that measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is North America’s Lake Superior.
Note: In the United States, an acre foot is a unit of volume used to refer to large-scale bodies of water. It is defined by the volume of water needed to cover 1 acre of surface area to a depth of 1 foot.
You can find many of the the world’s largest lakes (by water volume) on LakeLubbers. Note: For some lakes, the water volume data is unknown or does not apply, so you may see fewer lakes than the total 4 articles we have published for Central Valley Region, CA lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > US West Region > California > Central Valley Region, CA > Compared by water volume. This list does not represent all lakes in Central Valley Region, CA, only the 4 Central Valley Region, CA lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Water vol. in ac-ft |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| San Luis Reservoir, CA (California, Central Valley Region, CA, US West Region, USA) |
2,041,000 ac-ft | A sparkling sapphire gem carved into the eastern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, the San Luis Reservoir enjoys a scenic location in Merced County. Thi… |
| Lake Berryessa, CA (California, Central Valley Region, CA, US West Region, USA) |
1,602,000 ac-ft | Lake Berryessa, nestled into the heart of California’s wine country, is the largest lake in Napa County. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation built the Mont… |
| Lake Kaweah (California, Central Valley Region, CA, US West Region, USA) |
185,600 ac-ft | (Also known as Kaweah Lake, Kaweah Reservoir) Lake Kaweah, located about halfway between the City of Visalia and Sequoia National Park in California’s Central Valley region, is an engineering marv… |
| Success Lake (California, Central Valley Region, CA, US West Region, USA) |
82,300 ac-ft | (Also known as Lake Success, Success Reservoir) Feeding America’s families is just one of the quiet duties of Success Lake in California’s fertile Central Valley region. Since the Tule River was dam… |