In the Vinony graph
Vinony catalogs Chott el Djerid in its Ramsar Wetlands collection (1,486 entries).
Within Vinony's link graph, Chott el Djerid is referenced by 65 other articles, and connects out to endorheic basin, discharge and France.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Accuracy disputes from March 2022, Endorheic lakes of Africa and Kebili Governorate.
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