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The Lake Chad Basin Commission was established in 1964 by Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, the four countries that contain parts of Lake Chad. [10] [14] About 20% of the basin, lying in these countries, is termed the Conventional Basin. The Lake Chad Basin Commission manages use of water and other natural resources in this area. [9]
Map showing the Chari River drainage basin. The Chad Basin includes Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Sudan, and the Central African Republic. [21] It is an extensional fault depression type rift basin, which can be divided into four secondary structural units: southern depression, northern depression, central uplift, and eastern slope. The ...
Map of Chad from the CIA World Factbook Sandstone pinnacles in northeastern Chad. The terrain of Chad in central Africa is dominated by the low-lying Chad Basin (elevation about 250m / 820ft), which rises gradually to mountains and plateaus on the north, east, and south.
The highest point in Chad is Emi Koussi, a mountain that rises 3,100 m (10,171 ft) in the northern Tibesti Mountains. The Ennedi Plateau and the Ouaddaï highlands in the east complete the image of a gradually sloping basin, which descends towards Lake Chad. There are also central highlands in the Guera region rising to 1,500 m (4,921 ft).
The Chad Basin National Park is a national park in northeastern Nigeria, in the Chad Basin, with a total area of about 2,258 km 2. The park is fragmented, with three sectors. The Chingurmi-Duguma sector is in Borno State, in a Sudanian savanna ecological zone. The Bade-Nguru Wetlands and Bulatura sectors are in Yobe State in the Sahel ...
The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC or CBLT in French) is an intergovernmental organization that oversees water and other natural resource usage in the basin. There are eight member governments—i.e., Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Algeria, the Central African Republic, Libya, and Sudan—chosen for their proximity to Lake Chad.
The Chad Basin is the largest endorheic drainage basin in Africa, centered on Lake Chad. ... Map showing the traditional language families represented in Africa:
Map of Chad showing the main rivers and tributeries. This is a list of rivers in Chad. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented ...