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Coordinates: 49°22′37″N 123°07′12″W / 49.377°N 123.120°W

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Capilano Lake

Capilano Lake
Location	British Columbia
Coordinates	49°22′37″N 123°07′12″W / 49.377°N 123.120°W / 49.377; -123.120
Type	Reservoir
Primary inflows	Capilano River
Primary outflows	Capilano River
Basin countries	Canada

Max. length	4.8 km (3.0 mi)
Max. width	750 m (2,460 ft)
Average depth	87 m (285 ft)
Water volume	57.9×10^⁹ L (12.7×10^⁹ imp gal) 57.9×10^⁹ L (15.3×10^⁹ US gal)
Surface elevation	160 m (520 ft)

Settlements	North Vancouver

Capilano Lake is a manmade lake located in the District of North Vancouver and West Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.

History

The lake accounts for approximately 40% of Greater Vancouver's water supply.^[1] The southern part of the lake is within the Capilano River Regional Park; it is also in this area that the lake is separated from the Capilano River's southern portion by the Cleveland Dam.

A view of Capilano Lake from the Cleveland Dam.

In popular culture

Capilano Lake is portrayed as the fictional Highland Beach, Washington in The 4400 television program, as well as Lake Okobogee in a season one episode of the X-Files, as well as a location in the Quagmire episode from Season 3, Episode 22..

References

^ "Watersheds and Reservoirs". Metro Vancouver. Retrieved 29 June 2020.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Capilano Lake.

Metro Vancouver Regional District - Seymour Capilano Filtration Project Brochure

Hydrography of British Columbia

Rivers

Lakes

Coastal features

Haida Gwaii	Cumshewa Inlet Darwin Sound Laskeek Bay Masset Inlet Rennell Sound Skidegate Channel Skidegate Inlet
North Coast	Arthur Passage Burke Channel Chatham Sound Dixon Entrance Douglas Channel Finlayson Channel Fisher Channel Fitz Hugh Sound Gardner Canal Grenville Channel Hecate Strait Juan Perez Sound Lama Passage Laredo Channel Milbanke Sound Portland Inlet Prince Rupert Harbour Princess Royal Channel Principe Channel Queen Charlotte Sound Rivers Inlet Seaforth Channel Smith Inlet Smith Sound Wright Sound
Central Coast	Belize Inlet Bute Inlet Call Inlet Cordero Channel Drury Inlet Frederick Arm Goletas Channel Johnstone Strait Kingcome Inlet Knight Inlet Loughborough Inlet Nodales Channel Phillips Arm Pryce Channel Queen Charlotte Strait Seymour Inlet Sutlej Channel Wells Passage
Salish Sea	Active Pass Baynes Sound Boundary Bay Boundary Pass Burrard Inlet Calm Channel Captain Passage Desolation Sound Discovery Passage Haro Strait Homfray Channel Hoskyn Channel Howe Sound Jervis Inlet Malaspina Strait Okisollo Channel Port San Juan Ramsay Arm Saanich Inlet Sansum Narrows Satellite Channel Sechelt Inlet Stuart Channel Strait of Georgia Strait of Juan de Fuca Sutil Channel Toba Inlet Trincomali Channel Victoria Harbour
Vancouver Island	Barkley Sound Brooks Bay Checleset Bay Clayoquot Sound Hansen Bay Kyuquot Sound Nootka Sound Pachena Bay Quatsino Sound San Josef Bay

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