Tourism
Lakes of Ounianga
Eighteen lakes in the Ennedi / BET desert, UNESCO World Heritage since 2012. Salt and freshwater, palm groves, yardangs.
Credit : Jacques Taberlet, Ounianga Serir, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Context
In depth
Machine translation from French, under review. The French text is authoritative.
The Lakes of Ounianga, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2012, are a group of eighteen blue, green or reddish lakes fed by fossil groundwater in the middle of a hyper-arid desert that receives less than two millimetres of rain a year.
- UNESCO
- World Heritage since 2012
- Lakes
- 18
Location
Provinces listed in our data: Ennedi-Ouest
Cultural identities extend beyond provincial boundaries. See on the map
Media
Entry photo: Jacques Taberlet, Ounianga Serir, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
References
Key: Documented: based on the published sources cited below.
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