Key facts
- Type
- Salt lake , endorheic basin
- Primary inflows
- groundwater
- Primary outflows
- terminal Evaporation
- Basin countries
- Tunisia
- Max length
- 250 km (160 mi)
- Max width
- 20 km (12 mi)
- Surface area
- 7,000 km (2,700 sq mi)
- Surface elevation
- +10–25 m (33–82 ft)
- Designated
- 7 November 2007
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- protected area
- Country
- Tunisia
- Located in
- Kebili Governorate
- Area
- 5360
- Elevation
- 15
- Image
- Chott Djerid 002.jpg
- Length
- 250
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- Commons category
- Chott el Djerid
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Chott el Djerid (Arabic: شط الجريد Šoṭṭ el-Jarīd) also spelled Sciott Gerid and Shott el Jerid, is a chott, a large endorheic salt lake in central Tunisia. The name can be translated from the Arabic into English as "Lagoon of the Land of Palms".
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chott el Djerid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations