Malheur Lake

Malheur Lake
Satellite image of Harney Lake (left) and Malheur Lake (right)
Location	Harney County, Oregon, USA
Coordinates	43°19′58″N 118°47′35″W / 43.33267°N 118.793106°W / 43.33267; -118.793106Coordinates: 43°19′58″N 118°47′35″W / 43.33267°N 118.793106°W / 43.33267; -118.793106
Lake type	Endorheic
Primary inflows	Donner und Blitzen River, Silvies River
Primary outflows	ground seepage, evaporation
Basin countries	United States

Hand painted glass slide of a colony of California Gulls at Malheur Lake, taken by Finley and Bohlman during a 1908 photograph trip to the area. Finley and Bohlman's photographs would later help Malheur become a bird refuge in 1908

Malheur Lake is a lake in an arid region of eastern Oregon, United States near Burns, Oregon. The lake is fed by Donner und Blitzen River from the south and the Silvies River from the north. Malheur Lake has no outlet, though water escapes through ground seepage and by evaporation; widespread regional irrigation may or may not have an effect. At the bottom of Harney Basin, also Harney Lake is a "twin" which, historically, merges with Malheur Lake when the water levels rise sufficiently. This last happened in the mid-1980s.

See also

• List of lakes in Oregon
• List of Oregon rivers