Lake chad

The Lakes of Ounianga in the Sahara Desert Chad, are series of 18 lakes in the Sahara, freshwater ancient lakes of Ounianga Chad in Sahara desert,

This Landsat-8 image from 4 July 2014 shows Lake Chad in West Africa’s Sahel region – a transition zone between the Sahara Desert to the north and savannahs and woodlands to the south. - Credits: USGS/ESA

The site includes eighteen interconnected lakes in the hyper arid Ennedi region of the Sahara desert covering an area of 62,808 ha. It constitutes an exceptional natural landscape of great beauty with striking colours and shapes. The saline, hyper saline and freshwater lakes are supplied by groundwater and are found in two groups 40 km apart. Ounianga Kebir comprises four lakes, the largest of which, Yoan, covers an area of 358 ha and is 27 m deep. Its highly saline waters only sustain algae…

The sweet waters of Lake Chad ~ Republic of Chad, Middle Africa photo by John Scofield/National Geographic

A visit to Chad is not for the fainthearted. The country has been described as extreme in a continent that is full of destinations that will leave you out of ... Read more

Beautiful, Lake Chad

camels in ‘camel canyon’, ennedi ouest, borkou-ennedi-tibesti, chad

Decrease in populations is compounded by poaching as people scramble to make ends meet