Abaededsee
| Abaededsee | ||
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| Geographical location | Eritrea | |
| Drain | drainless | |
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 35 '17 " N , 40 ° 5' 4" E | |
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| Depth below sea level | 30 m below sea level | |
| length | 450 m | |
| Maximum depth | 10 m | |
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The Abaededsee is a salt lake that lies in a volcanic crater on the northwestern border of the hot and extremely dry Danakil Depression in Eritrea , 132 km southeast of Massaua . The lake surface is 30 meters below sea level.
The lake is fed by a few hot springs and has no drainage. The water temperature is around 29 ° C, but reaches 45 ° C around the hot springs. The salinity is 14.5 g / l, the pH value 7.46, the electrical conductivity is 23100. On the southern and eastern edge of the lake are sand dunes from which sand is occasionally blown into the lake. The lakeshore is almost completely overgrown by reeds ( Phragmites australis ) and tamarisks ( Tamarix aphylla ), but there is no vegetation in the area around the hot springs. The cichlid Danakilia dinicolai is endemic only in this lake and is most common in the reed belt around the lakes and in zones of the lake floor where the water temperature is not too high. There the ground is littered with the crater-like nests of the colored cichlids. Another vertebrate found in the lake is a frog, possibly Ptychadena anchietae .