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Salt pan at Lake Karum in Ethiopia. Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun. They are found in deserts and are natural formations (unlike salt evaporation ponds, which are artificial). A salt pan forms by evaporation of a water pool, such as a lake or ...
Salt pans, saline/brackish and intermittent wetlands and salt-lake shore vegetation (SLV/SSS) (Adapted from Ib Friis, Sebsebe Demissew and Paulo van Breugel (2010).) The Ethiopian Highlands lie mostly in Ethiopia, extending into Eritrea and Sudan to the north.
Lake Karum (also known as Lake Assale or Asale) is a salt lake in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. One of two salt lakes in the northern end of the Danakil Depression (the other one being Lake Afrera), it lies 120 m (394 ft) below sea level. [1] The volcano Erta Ale rises southeast of this lake.
Salt pans, saline/brackish and intermittent wetlands and salt-lake shore vegetation (SLV/SSS) (Adapted from Ib Friis, Sebsebe Demissew and Paulo van Breugel (2010).) The Ethiopian montane forests are composed of two main plant communities, Afromontane rain forest (aka moist evergreen Afromontane forest) and Afromontane transitional rain forest.
The Okavango River, in the Kalahari Desert, is part of an endorheic basin region, the Okavango Basin, that also includes the Okavango Delta, Lake Ngami, the Nata River, and a number of salt pans such as Makgadikgadi Pan. Etosha Pan in Namibia's Etosha National Park. Turkana Basin, in Kenya, whose basin includes the Omo River of Ethiopia.
The largest individual pan is about 1,900 sq mi (4,921.0 km 2). In comparison, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is a single salt flat of 4,100 sq mi (10,619.0 km 2), rarely has much water, and is generally claimed to be the world's largest salt pan. A dry, salty, clay crust most of the year, the pans are seasonally covered with water and grass, and ...
Makgadikgadi Pans ; Northern Eastern Rift (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia) Afar Depression (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia) Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes (Ethiopia) Lake Chew Bahir, Ethiopia, Kenya; Chalbi Desert, Kenya, Ethiopia; Lake Logipi-Suguta Valley (Kenya) Lake Turkana Basin (Ethiopia, Kenya) Southern Eastern Rift (Kenya, Tanzania) Lake Baringo ...
The Makgadikgadi Salt Pans in Botswana mark the remnants of the lake today. They are one of the most important breeding sites in Southern Africa for lesser and greater flamingos Lake Makgadikgadi ( Setswana : Letsha la Makgadikgadi , [lɪt͜sʰa la makχʰadiˈkχʰaːdi] ) was a paleolake that existed in what is now the Kalahari Desert in ...