Gossi (lake)
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| Geographical location | Southeast Mali | |
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| Coordinates | 15 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ N , 1 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| surface | 5.6 km² | |
The Gossi is a lake in the Gourma-Rharous region in southeast Mali . He is also called Mare de Gossi .
It has an area of 5.6 km², is located in the Gourma Desert and is fed underground.
At the lake in the small town of Gossi there is a nationally important cattle market every week. The lake belongs to the habitat of a few hundred elephants in Mali.
Nearby, Thierry Sabine (founder of the Dakar Rally ), Daniel Balavoine and three other people were killed in a helicopter crash on January 14, 1986.
Web links
- The Elephants of Gourma
- Photos of the lake with elephants for the film The Lost Elephants of Timbuktu ( Memento from July 29, 2009 in the web archive archive.today )