Dissoni lake

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Dissoni lake
Manengouba-Tombel.jpg
The Dissoni lake is on the top left, the larger lake in the middle is the Barombi Mbo . ( NASA satellite photo )
Geographical location Cameroon , Sud-Ouest region
Drain → Uwe → Meme River
Location close to the shore Kumba
Data
Coordinates 4 ° 43 '47 "  N , 9 ° 16' 55"  E Coordinates: 4 ° 43 '47 "  N , 9 ° 16' 55"  E
Lake Dissoni (Cameroon)
Dissoni lake
length 1.25 km
Maximum depth 81 m

particularities

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Lake Dissoni , also known as Lake Soden , is a crater lake in the Sud-Ouest region of Cameroon .

location

With a diameter of 1250 meters and a depth of 81 meters, it is one of the larger crater lakes in Western Cameroon. The lake is located in the southeast of the Rumpi Mountains at 461 meters above sea level, only 15 km from the Barombi Mbo lake. Its outflow, the Uwe River, lies in the southwest, making it part of the Meme River's catchment area . Its water is turquoise green. The region around Lake Dissoni is covered by a rainforest. The lake can only be reached via two footpaths that lead over the southern crater wall. The lake is located in the settlement area of ​​the Oroko people .

fauna

The lake's fish fauna consists of only three or four species, the light- eyed fish Procatopus lacustris , a previously undescribed predatory catfish ( Clarias sp.) And a large-scaled barbel from the relatives of Labeobarbus batesii . In the tributaries still lives Killie Aphyosemion Celiae . Cichlids , the typical inhabitants of the other Cameroonian crater lakes, are missing. The free water is populated by millions of small endemic freshwater shrimp ( Caridina sodenensis ).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dug-Well Biological Water Quality in Kumba-Cameroon: GIS Evaluation and Seasonal Variation of a Pollution-Indicator (PDF document, 4.43 MB) (English)

swell

  • Uli Schiewen: Diversity in the smallest of spaces - Cameroon's south-western province. In: DATZ . No. 2, 2003. ISSN  1616-3222
  • J. Richard, PF Clark: African Caridina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae): redescriptions of C. africana Kingsley, 1882, C. togoensis Hilgendorf, 1893, C. natalensis Bouvier, 1925 and C. roubaudi Bouvier, 1925 with descriptions of 14 new species. In: Zootaxa. No. 1995, 2009, pp. 1-75.