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The seventh largest lake in the world (and the fourth largest in Africa), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert. [6] The Chari River contributes 95 percent of Lake Chad's water, an average annual volume of 40 billion cubic meters, 95% of which is lost to evaporation. [6]
Like other parts of southern Chad and the East Sudanian savanna, Sarh has a typical tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw), with a wet season and a dry season and the temperature being hot year-round. The average annual high temperature is 34.9 °C (94.8 °F), while the average annual low temperature is 20.9 °C (69.6 °F).
The following is a list of ecoregions in Chad, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions ... South Saharan steppe and woodlands;
Climate zones of Africa, showing the ecological break between the Sahara Desert (red), the hot semi-arid climate of the Sahel (orange) and the tropical climate of Central and Western Africa (blue). Southern Africa has a transition to subtropical and temperate climates (green and yellow), and more desert or semi-arid regions, centered on Namibia ...
Southern Africa has a transition to subtropical or temperate climates (green and yellow), and more desert or semi-desert regions, centered on Namibia and Botswana. Sub-Saharan Africa has a wide variety of climate zones or biomes. South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in particular are considered megadiverse countries. It has a ...
Chad has several regions: the Sahara desert in the north, an arid zone in the centre known as the Sahel and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. [9] It is home to over 200 different ethnic and ...
Category: Ecoregions of Chad. 8 languages. ... South Saharan steppe and woodlands; Sudanian savanna; T. Tibesti–Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands
The Bodélé Depression is a low region in the southern Sahara that is surrounded by basalt mountain ridges. [1] Winds flow through this region and lift dust. The dust from this region supplies over half of the dust to Amazon rainforests. [1] The only important rivers, the Logone and Chari, are located in the southwest and flow into Lake Chad. [2]