Mono Lake is an alkaline lake (it has high concentrations of carbonate salts), located on the east of California, in the United States.

The term “Mono” came from the word “Monachi”, a Yokut term (Yokuts were an ethnic group of Native Americans native to central California) for the tribes that lived on both the east and west side of the Sierra Nevada.

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