Crescent Lake
Rio Verde, San Luis Potosi, Rio Verde, Mexico
Description:
Crescent Lake is a popular tourist and archaeological site in the region, measuring about three hundred meters long and sixty meters wide.
The lake is formed on the site of a former volcanic crater, the average water temperature is about thirty degrees, which is ideal for swimming and underwater diving. Despite the temperature, the water in the lake is always perfectly clean and is often used for the needs of nearby campsites. On many tributaries of the lake took root colorful fish, ducks and other wild animals.
An interesting attraction of the lake are the remains of two skeletons of mammoths, thanks to which the lake has a second name - "Mammoth Lake".
In the early seventies, archaeologists and divers at the bottom of the lake were discovered about a hundred sculptures of idols and various vessels belonging to the pre-Hispanic period.