Lake Pateros
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Lake Pateros near Pateros (Washington) | |||||||||
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Coordinates | 47 ° 56 '51 " N , 119 ° 51' 56" W | ||||||||
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The Lake Pateros is an artificial lake on the Columbia River in the US state of Washington . It was created in 1967 with the construction of Wells Dam . The reservoir is almost entirely in Douglas and Okanogan Counties , but the dam itself is partly in the easternmost part of Chelan County . The reservoir extends upstream from this dam to the Chief Joseph Dam . Towns on the waterfront include Pateros and Brewster .
Lake Pateros is known by many different names, including Butler Lake, Chief Long Jim Lake, Fort Okanogan Lake, and Lake Azwell.