Lake Chad

pre-travel posts: enriching the experience
 

Chad’s capital city, N’Djamena, is situated at the confluence of the Chari and Logone Rivers. Both rivers originate in the Central African Republic (a landlocked and sparsely populated undulating plateau) and flow northward into Lake Chad. One of Africa’s most important wetlands-and significant as an international wetland-the Lake is a living well for over 20 million people from Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon. Endangered otters, gazelles, elephants, hippopotamuses and Nile Crocodiles live here, too.
But the Lake is shrinking...