Kaulime Lake
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| The Kaulime Lake in Nyika National Park | ||
| Geographical location | Nyika National Park , Malawi | |
| Tributaries | no | |
| Location close to the shore | Chelinda Lodge | |
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| Coordinates | 10 ° 34 '40 " S , 33 ° 45' 39" E | |
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| surface | 1.3 ha | |
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| Lake Kaulime at the end of September 2008 | ||
The Kaulime Lake ( English : Lake Kaulime ) is the only naturally formed lake in Nyika National Park in northern Malawi .
geography
The lake, up to 1.3 hectares in size, is located in the middle of the highlands of the Nyika plateau at an altitude of 2200 m about 8 km west of Chelinda.
description
The lake is said to have been created by a landslide that blocked the outflow of a small tributary to Northern Rukuru .
The author Richard Newton, who was originally an employee of the Department of National Parks of Malawi, describes the small lake as a puzzling phenomenon: "no inflow, no outflow, just a still water that reflects the sky".
The lake is a sacred place for many residents of the plateau. Among the Tumbuka there are followers of the traditional cults who make sacrifices for evil spirits at Lake Kaulime. After the vernacular , the lake is home to a huge snake that has extraordinary powers. The snake is supposed to enable people to communicate with their gods. Stone artifacts and seashells were found in the lake .
The wolf spider Trabea nigristernis , which lives by the lake, is a special species of spider only native to Malawi.
The lake, which is used by wild animals as a watering place away from human habitation, enables visitors to the national park to observe animals in the wild with relative ease.
literature
- John Burrows, Christopher Willis: Plants of the Nyika Plateau . South African National Biodiversity Institute , Pretoria 2005. ISBN 1-919976-08-6
Individual evidence
- ^ National Audit Office Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, March / April 2007.
- ↑ Chelinda Lodge . Jambo Africa Ltd. , archived from the original on August 4, 2010 ; accessed on September 19, 2012 (English, original website no longer available).
- ^ Plants of the Nyika Plateau . South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 2005, p. 2
- ^ Richard Newton: Malawi: the Wisdom of SS Ngoma. Travelintelligence (accessed December 20, 2009)
- ↑ Nyika National Park - World Heritage - UNESCO - (accessed December 20, 2009)
- ↑ Mark Alderweireldt: A Revision of a Central African Trabea (araneae, lycosidae) with the description of two new species from Malawi . (PDF; 561 kB) The Journal of Arachnology (27), 1999, pp. 449-457. ISSN 1937-2396