Key facts
- Location
- Monduli District , Arusha Region , Tanzania
- Lake type
- Saline , alkaline , endorheic
- Primary inflows
- Simba River (from the north), Makayuni River (from the east)
- Max length
- 40 km (25 mi) max
- Max width
- 15 km (9.3 mi) max
- Surface area
- 181.5 sq mi (470 km )
- Max depth
- 3.7 m (12 ft)
- Surface elevation
- 1,045 m (3,428 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Tanzania
- Located in
- Babati District
- Area
- 230
- Image
- Lake Manyara.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Lake Manyara
- Commons category
- Lake Manyara
- located in protected area
- Lake Manyara National Park
- basin country
- Tanzania
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Manyara, the cliff after the sunset.
Lake Manyara also known as Lake Moya among the Iraqw people is a lake located in Monduli District of Arusha Region, Tanzania and is the seventh-largest lake of Tanzania by surface area, at 470-square-kilometre (180 sq mi). It is a shallow, alkaline lake in the Natron-Manyara-Balangida branch of the East African Rift. The northwest quadrant of the lake (about 200 sq, km.) is included within Lake Manyara National Park and it is part of the Lake Manyara Biosphere Reserve, established in 1981 by UNESCO as part of its Man and the Biosphere Programme.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Manyara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.