Lake
Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires measures about 1,900 km² (733 mi²), the 62nd largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 95% of the size of Mauritius.
200 km
- Mauritius
- Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires
The numbers
- 1,900km²Area, measured733 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 1,850km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.7% below our measure
- 590mGreatest depthWikidata
- 202mAbove 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 Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 200× the size of Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires; Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires ranks 62nd.
- Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires sits between Vättern (1,960 km²) and Namtso (1,880 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires would be larger than 36 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 177th by area, between Mauritius (2,000 km²) and the Comoros (1,670 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): Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires is 67% of the size of Rhode Island.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 590 m.
- Its surface lies about 202 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 47°S is drawn about 2.1× too large in area, so Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires stretches about 84 km north to south and 137 km east to west.
- Our measured 1,900 km² is 2.7% above Wikidata’s published figure of 1,850 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
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Chile and Argentina contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires. 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
- Lake General Carrera/Buenos Airesthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- General Carrera/Buenos Airesalso calledsource: Natural Earth
- Lago Buenos Airesalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires ranks
Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires is the 62nd largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
Ranked lakes
- 59Kama Reservoir2,040 km²
- 60Lake Chany2,040 km²
- 61Vättern1,960 km²
- 62Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires1,900 km²
- 63Namtso1,880 km²
- 64Baker Lake1,820 km²
- 65Lac La Martre1,740 km²
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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