Lake
Argentino Lake
Natural Earth’s outline of Argentino Lake measures about 1,450 km² (562 mi²), the 72nd largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 87% of the size of the Comoros.
50 km
- Comoros
- Argentino Lake
The numbers
- 1,450km²Area, measured562 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 1,420km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.8% below our measure
- 150mGreatest depthaverage about 0.1 m
- 0.2km³VolumeWikidata
- 187mAbove sea levelSurface, Wikidata
The area is measured from the outline drawn above, on the WGS84 ellipsoid; the published figure is shown beside it, and a water body is kept only if the two are within 10%.
What the numbers say about Argentino Lake
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 261× the size of Argentino Lake; Argentino Lake ranks 72nd.
- Argentino Lake sits between Lake Claire (1,480 km²) and Lac la Ronge (1,450 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Argentino Lake would be larger than 35 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 178th by area, between the Comoros (1,670 km²) and São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
- It is larger than 1 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Washington, D.C., 162 km²) and smaller than 50.
- It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
- The closest US state is Rhode Island (2,830 km²): Argentino Lake is 51% of the size of Rhode Island.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 150 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 0.1 m.
- Wikidata records a volume of 0 km³. Poured over the Comoros (1,670 km²), that water would stand 0.1 m deep.
- Its surface lies about 187 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 50°S is drawn about 2.4× too large in area, so Argentino Lake looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Argentino Lake stretches about 78 km north to south and 97 km east to west.
- Our measured 1,450 km² is 2.8% above Wikidata’s published figure of 1,420 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.
About the same size as
Countries
US states
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Argentina and Chile contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Argentino Lake. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.
Names
- Argentino Lakethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Argentinoalso calledsource: Natural Earth
- Lago Argentinoalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Argentino Lake ranks
Argentino Lake is the 72nd largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Lakes + Reservoirs, public domain (Lakes + Reservoirs). Outlines of lakes are drawn at 1:10 million.
- Boundary
- A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own. The outline is a cartographic one, and the page says so by showing the measured area beside the published one.
- Area basis
- Measured outline: computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline and shown rounded. Published figure: Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11. An outline is kept within 10% of the published figure and matched to other places automatically within 5%.
- Depth, volume, height
- As recorded in Wikidata; a volume that cannot be right for the area and depth is left out.
- Shore
- Countries whose Natural Earth outline contains or comes close to the water's outline; computed, not a statement of ownership.
- Drawing
- Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and two can be laid over each other.
- Data built
- 2026-11-11