the Americas. Devils Lake, in North Dakota. Devil's Lake, in Wisconsin, cryptorheic. Tule Lake and the Lost River basin in California and Oregon. Little Manitou Lake in Saskatchewan. Old Wives Lake, on the Laurentian Divide in Saskatchewan. Quill Lakes, in Saskatchewan. Pakowki Lake, on the Laurentian Divide in Alberta. Paynes Prairie, in Florida. Since 1927, it has been drained by canal to the Atlantic Ocean via the River Styx. Spotted Lake, Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada. Several lakes on the western Chilcotin Plateau that sit on the divide between the Fraser River drainage to the east and the Homathko drainage to the west. Such examples include Choelquoit Lake, Eagle Lake, and Martin lake. Frame Lake in Yellowknife, capital of Canada's Northwest Territories. New Mexico has a number of desert endorheic basins including: The Tularosa Basin, a rift valley. Zuñi Salt Lake, a maar. The Mimbres River Basin, in Grant County. Lago Enriquillo on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea. Many small lakes and ponds in North Dakota and the Northern Great Plains are endorheic; some of them have salt encrustations along their shores. South America Laguna del Carbón, in Gran Bajo de San Julián, Argentina – the lowest point in the Western and Southern hemispheres Lake Mar Chiquita in Argentina. The Altiplano includes a number of closed basins such as the Salar de Coipasa, and Titicaca–Poopó system. Lake Valencia, in Venezuela. Salar de Atacama, in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Ancient Some of Earth's ancient endorheic systems and lakes include: The Black Sea, until its merger with the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean Sea itself and all its tributary basins, during its Messinian desiccation (approximately five million years ago) as it became disconnected from the Atlantic Ocean. The Orcadian Basin in Scotland during the Devonian period. Now identifiable as lacustrine sediments buried around and off the coast. Lake Tanganyika in Africa. Currently high enough to connect to rivers entering the sea. Lake Lahontan in North America. Lake Bonneville in North America. Basin was not always endorheic; at times it overflowed through Red Rock Pass to the Snake River and the sea. Lake Chewaucan in North America. Tularosa Basin and Lake Cabeza de Vaca in North America. The basin was formerly much larger than at present, including the ancestral Rio Grande north of Texas, feeding a large lake area. Ebro and Duero basins, draining most of northern Spain during the Neogene and perhaps