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The southern half of Lake Natron (top). Fault scarps and the Gelai Volcano can also be seen. Numerous near-white salt-crust "rafts" pepper the shallowest parts of the lake (inset). Lake Natron is a salt or alkaline lake located in north Ngorongoro District of Arusha Region in Tanzania at the border with Kenya.
Alcolapia alcalica, the common natron tilapia [2] or soda cichlid, [3] is an endangered species of fish in the family Cichlidae. [1] It is endemic to the hypersaline , warm Lake Natron in Ngorongoro District of Arusha Region , its drainage and the Shombole Swamps in Kenya and Tanzania . [ 1 ]
Lake Natron: salt lake: Tanzania [26] 3.40–3.60: World Ocean: ocean: Worldwide [27] 3.50+ Lake Eyre: endorheic lake: ... salt lake: Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia [41] [n ...
Lake Natron in Tanzania is a literal hell on earth for most animals. The pH and temperature levels in the water are so high it can burn off the skin and eyes of animals that aren't adapted to it.
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The Malagarasi River is the largest tributary of Lake Tanganyika. Part of southwestern Tanzania drains into Lake Malawi, which empties south into the Zambezi River. The Southern Eastern Rift area of north-central Tanzania is made up of several endorheic basins, which have no outlet to the sea and drain into salt and/or alkaline lakes.
Lesser flamingos over Lake Natron. The Lake Natron basin has been designated a Wetlands of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention. [3] However, in the past there have been plans to dam the Ewaso Ng'iro for hydroelectric power generation and for irrigation of the marshlands north of the lake, diverting water from other rivers to increase the flow.
Climate change is already making extreme flooding more frequent and intense and by 2050 100-year flood events are projected to occur at least twice as frequently as today across 40% of the planet.