Ontologia

HydroLAKES lake · #179373

Lac · #179373

Natural lakeBurkina FasoAfrica 282 m

Surface area

2,79km²

Avg depth

2,1m

Volume

5,8km³

Shoreline

29,2km

Administrative coverage

Parent watershed

hybas-10806994401380 km² · upstream 12327 km²

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Sanmatenga
    Centre-Nord · Burkina Faso
    1.67 km²
    60.2% of lake
  • Bam
    Centre-Nord · Burkina Faso
    1.10 km²
    39.8% of lake

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    2.78 km² overlap

  • Yabo

    IUCN Not Reported

    Classified Forest

    0.97 km² overlap

Computed live · HydroLAKES × GADM × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

44 distinct species · 52 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

52 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 52
52–51
52–51
52–51
< 52

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Lake statistics (HydroLAKES)

Surface

2,79km²

Avg depth

2,1m

Volume

5,800km³

Watershed

11 540km²

Shoreline

29,2km

Shore dev. idx

4,93

Residence time

17days

Elevation

282m

HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · 1.4M lacs ≥ 0.1 km² mondialement.