Cayuga Lake

Cayuga Lake stretches north and south through a deep basin carved by glaciers, one of the long Finger Lakes of the northeastern interior. Its waters drain northward toward the Seneca River and Lake Ontario. The lake and its shores were home to Cayuga villages, between the lands of their Onondaga and Seneca neighbours. The Cayuga were one of the founding nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, whose council joined the peoples of the longhouse.