Nicola Lake

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Nicola Lake
Nicola Lake
Location	British Columbia
Coordinates	50°10′N 120°31′W / 50.167°N 120.517°W / 50.167; -120.517
Primary inflows	Nicola River
Basin countries	Canada
Average depth	24 m (79 ft)
Max. depth	55 m (180 ft)
Surface elevation	628 m (2,060 ft)

Nicola Lake is a glacially formed narrow, deep lake located in the South-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada approximately thirty kilometres northeast of the city of Merritt. It was a centrepoint of the first settlements in the grasslands lying south of Kamloops, and today is used for recreation and as a water storage site to provide irrigation and water flows to fisheries downstream in the Nicola River. The lake is important in the history of the local Nicola people as the location of one of their major communities, Nicola Lake Indian Reserve No. 1, which lies on its eastern shore^[1] and is the home of the Upper Nicola Indian Band. Many of the band work for the Douglas Lake Cattle Company, aka the Douglas Lake Ranch, whose headquarters are also adjacent to the lake.