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The water surface of the lake is located around 60 metres (200 ft) below the land surface at the cave mouth. [3] [4] Its total depth is 205 metres (673 ft). [5] [6] Although it has been reported that the rare fish species, Clarias cavernicola, lives in the lake in the Dragon's Breath Cave
Underground lake within Cross Cave in Slovenia, one of 22 such lakes. An underground lake (also known as a subterranean lake) is a lake underneath the surface of the Earth. . Most naturally occurring underground lakes are found in areas of karst topography, [1] [2] where limestone or other soluble rock has been weathered away, leaving a cave where water can flow and accumu
Namibia, a country in south-western Africa, has a total of 124 known caves, 41 of which are situated in the Otjozondjupa Region. [1]In several of these caves research has been done and published in various journals, but of a variety of caves the location is not commonly known, as the information got lost over the years.
There are huge subterranean water reserves beneath parts of the Kalahari; the Dragon's Breath Cave, for example, is the largest documented non-subglacial underground lake. Such reserves may partly be the residues of ancient lakes; the Kalahari Desert was once a much wetter place.
Category: Caves of Namibia. 7 languages. ... Dragon's Breath Cave This page was last edited on 11 November 2018, at 21:39 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The cave catfish [2] (Clarias cavernicola) [3] is a critically endangered species of airbreathing catfish. [1] This cavefish is only known to live in the Aigamas cave, Otjozondjupa region, Namibia. [4] [2] It has also been reported from the nearby Dragon's Breath Cave. [5]
It is a sinkhole lake, created by a collapsing karst cave, [1] located thirty-eight kilometres west of Tsumeb, near the D3043 road. Lake Guinas is home to Tilapia guinasana , a critically endangered species of cichlid fish, endemic to this lake, but at some stage introduced to Guinas' sister lake, Lake Otjikoto , as well as into a few farm dams ...
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