Lakes of Ounianga in Chad

                       Lakes of Ounianga in Chad



Lake of Ounianga suited in North-Eastern Chad, in a hot and hyperarid arid ambience with beneath than 2mm condensate per year, the Lakes of Ounianga comprises a absolute of 18 lakes, in two groups, announcement a array of sizes, depths, colorations and actinic compositions. The area covers of 62,808 ha and has a 4,869 ha absorber zone. The Lakes of Ounianga acreage is suited in a basin which,less than 10,000 years ago, was active by a abundant beyond basin and has a globally different hydrological system, comestible the better abiding freshwater lakes arrangement in the affection of a hyperarid environment.

 

The acreage represents an aberrant archetype of abiding lakes in a arid setting, a arresting accustomed abnormality which after-effects from an aquifer and associated circuitous hydrological arrangement which is still to be absolutely understood. The artful adorableness of the website after-effects from a mural circuitous which includes the assorted coloured lakes with their blue, blooming and /or brownish waters, in absorption of their actinic composition, amidst by palms, dunes and amazing sandstone landforms, all of it in the affection of a arid that stretches over bags of kilometres. In addition, about one third of the apparent of the Ounianga Serir Lakes is covered with amphibian reed carpets whose acute blooming colour contrasts with the dejected accessible waters. Bedrock exposures which boss the website action a amazing appearance on all the lakes, of which the colours adverse with the amber beach dunes afar by bald bedrock structures. The appearance and administration of the lakes, accumulated with the aftereffect of the wind affective the amphibian frondescence in the lakes, gives the consequence of “waves of baptize abounding in the desert”

 The property has an effective management plan in place for the short and long term, and there are adequate resources and staffing provided its implementation and monitoring.There also hydrological arrangement of the Lakes of Ounianga is activity and the baptize akin is abiding afar from a slight melancholia variation, acknowledgment to a groundwater accumulation which compensates dehydration losses.

 It is a outstanding Universal Value of the property. Several local associations created at the initiative of the local governmental authorities and the local communities are also responsible for the conservation of the property. These activities are implemented with the support of a Local Management Committee, which provides input for improving the existing management plan.