Flooded city
Lakes Chad is a one of a kind large reservoir located in Central Africa, as well as one of the most significant and famous attractions. The lake is located in the west of the republic, near the lands of Shari. By the way, it is worth noting that these waters are the most ancient sources in Africa today, thanks to which the republic got its current name. Chad is considered one of the most volatile lakes in the entire world. This can be done on the assumption that the lakes are constantly changing their external outlines, then expanding in length, then losing width, then shrinking to unimaginable sizes, then on the contrary - increasing tens of times. The lake has no external drains, the waters are a little salty and not suitable for drinking, here people can only have a good beach holiday and take a dip. The maximum depth here is only eleven meters. The territory of the lake today is one of the richest territories of the Chad Republic, because it is here that an unimaginable accumulation of wildlife is collected, which is rarely found in such arid regions. Numerous vegetation grows around the lake, which annually serves as a home and a cozy corner for thousands of various animals and birds. The waters serve the local people today, to a greater extent, as a source of seafood and a territory for fishing. It's no secret that it is here that at least over fifty species of marine life are found.
The Shari River with the Logone tributary carries its bottoms to Lake Chad. Fluctuations in water discharge in the river are very significant. Near the N'Djamena, near the confluence of the Logone, Shari is 84 m wide at the beginning of June, but when it floods in November, its width reaches 600 m.
Shari is considered to be one of the most fishy rivers on earth. The largest fish, called the captain, can reach two meters in length and 80 kg in weight, moreover, it is very delicate in taste. According to Nachtigall, the inflow of water through rains and rivers is 100 cubic meters. km, and the loss of water through evaporation is 70 cubic meters. km. Due to the absence of a visible source of water from the lake, while the lake water remains fresh, Nachtigall assumes the existence of an underground channel in the northeast direction to Aegea and Borku. Near the river mouths, the water in the lake is fresh, in the rest it is slightly brackish; the insignificance of mineralization is explained, apparently, by the constant change of water in the lake due to the underground outflow of infiltration waters. In a very rainy season (which happens very rarely), with extraordinarily high levels of the water's edge, a temporary surface runoff of the lake is formed in the north-east (along the dry channel of Bahr el-Ghazal). The dark, dirty water of the lake is overgrown in places with dense algae. From July to November, under the influence of rains, the water level gradually rises and the low southwestern coast is widely flooded almost to Cook. Over a considerable area, the lake is very shallow (here you can wade it on horseback); the western part near Ngornu and Maduari is very deep. The maximum depth during the rainy season is 11 meters. The banks are mostly swampy and overgrown with papyrus; to the northeast, the area has the character of a steppe, and only the southern coast is distinguished by rich tropical vegetation.
In the eastern part, the lake is covered with a network of islets (up to 100 in number), of which the groups of Buduma, Karka and Kuri are inhabited (up to 30 thousand people) by people from neighboring tribes (Buduma, Kuri, Kanemba, Kanuri, Bulala and Datsa).
In 2006, a lake with an area of \u200b\u200b23 thousand square kilometers, located on the borders of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and the Republic of Chad, decreased 26 times and continues to dry up, which became known thanks to the Earth monitoring carried out by the international system "Disaster Monitoring Constellation". Chad is known to dry up for the seventh time in the last millennium. Scientists - paleontologists have established this from the remains of animals found there.
The region of the upper reaches of the Shari is the most fertile and populated in the country. The population density here reaches 15 people per 1 km 2 (with an average density in the Republic of Chad of 3 people per 1 km 2).
The Republic of Chad is divided into two parts: northern and southern. In the south, there are Negro tribes who speak many languages \u200b\u200band dialects. Some of them profess Christianity, others are faithful to local traditional cults. The population of the south is engaged in agriculture. Fertile soils make it possible to grow here along with food valuable industrial crops for export.
The northern part of Chad is mostly deserts and semi-deserts. There is no fertile land there. The population has long been engaged in nomadic cattle breeding.
The water in the lake is darkish due to dense algae. During the rainy season, the maximum depth of Lake Chad can reach up to eleven meters. Most of the shores of the lake are swampy, overgrown with papyrus, only the southern shore of Lake Chad is rich in tropical vegetation. There are small islands in the eastern part of the lake.
It should be noted that natural salt deposits are located in the northeastern part of the coast of Chad.
The presented lake is home to unique animals - manatees, crocodiles, and hippos. Also on the territory of this lake, you can see a large number of beautiful marsh and water birds. This lake is home to a wide variety of fish.
Why does South Africa have a much smaller tropical belt than North Africa? Why does Lake Chad change its shape and area during the year? Why is Antarctica considered the highest continent on Earth?
Answers:
1) North Africa is elongated in a sublatitudinal direction, and South in a submeridional direction, therefore, a feature of Africa's conciguration is the unequal land area to the north and south of the equator. The northern part of the continent is more than twice the width of the southern one: the greatest distances between the extreme eastern and western points of the northern and southern parts of the continent are 7600 and 3100 km, respectively. 2) If it were not for the southern rivers Shari and Komadugu-Yobe, which feed the lake with their waters, it would have disappeared long ago. These tributaries run down from the slopes of the relatively low mountains that separate the catchment of Chad from the basins of the great African rivers Nile and Congo. About 500-600 millimeters of precipitation falls here throughout the year. This amount of moisture is sufficient to feed both rivers and Lake Chad. Fighting with the desert, the lake often changes its boundaries, and from this the area of \u200b\u200bthe water surface changes dramatically. 3) Antarctica is covered with an ice shell, the average height of which is 2040 meters (2.8 times the average height of the surface of all other continents). Near the South Pole, the thickness of the ice shell reaches 3800 meters. The total mass of frozen water concentrated in Antarctica is 30 million cubic kilometers. Under its weight, the earth's crust on this continent sagged to 950 meters.
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The King's Square (Plaça del Rei - Plaza del Rei) is one of the main attractions of the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. It is an almost completely enclosed space: you can go to Plaza del Rey from the side of Veger street (carrer del Veguer) and Santa Clara lane (baixada de Santa Clara), on three other sides the square is surrounded by medieval buildings of the Governor's Palace (Palau de Lloctinent), The Grand Royal Palace (Palau Reial Major) and the Chapel of Saint Agatha (Capella de Santa Àgata) with a high bell tower dominating the square. Another dominant is the five-tiered Sentinel (aka observation or watchtower) Tower of King Martin (Mirador del rei Martí), towering over the Great Royal Palace and the Viceroy's Palace (by the way, it is often called the Count's Palace and the Viceroy's Palace). The steps on the right lead to the Saló del Tinell, the ceremonial hall of the royal palace, which was used for celebrations, receptions, and later for the meetings of the Spanish Inquisition.
CC BY-SA 3.0, maximdankov.ru) "\u003eThe King's Square has repeatedly changed its shape. In its modern form, the most ancient of the listed buildings are the Chapel of St. Agatha, built on the remains of Roman walls, at the beginning of the XIV century, and the Great Royal Palace, more or less finally taking shape in the late XIV - early XV centuries. The Steward's Palace and the Tower of King Martin appeared somewhat later - in the 16th century. At one time there was a fountain on the square, and one of the columns of the Roman temple of Augustus was installed here. Nowadays, all four surviving columns can be seen in the Center Excursionista de Catalunya, located not far from the Plaza del Rey - on Carrer Paradís.
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The geographic boundaries of the seas are not always land. And the sea itself is sometimes not at all the surface of the water, which we are used to seeing it. The name will not be entirely correct from a geographical point of view, since the “shores” of such seas are limited not by land, but by currents.
... We found ourselves in the region of the Sargasso Sea, a mysterious sea located west of Corvo, one of the Azores. This sea covers an area six times the size of Germany. It is all completely covered with a thick carpet of algae. "Seaweed" in Spanish - "sargassa", hence the name of the sea ...
How so: the sea among the ocean? Miss Kingman asked.
This question has not yet been solved by the scientists themselves. As they should be aware, the warm current of the Gulf Stream is heading north from the Florida Strait to Spitsbergen. But on the way, this current divides, and one arm returns to the south, reaches the Azores, goes to the western shores of Africa and, finally, having described a semicircle, returns to the Antilles. It turns out a warm ring, in which there is cold, calm water - the Sargasso Sea.
Look at the ocean!
Everyone looked around and were amazed: the surface of the ocean lay motionless in front of them, like a standing pond. Not the slightest wave, movement, splash. The first rays of the sun illuminated this strange, frozen sea, which was like a solid carpet of greenish-pale algae.
Belyaev A., “Island of the Lost Ships”
In fact, there is nothing to add to the words of Alexander Romanovich: in his novel he provided a fairly accurate description of a unique natural formation, which is the Sargasso Sea. "Liquid", unstable shores, formed by currents, change their outlines throughout the year, and the sea area varies within 6-7 million km. Due to the direction of the currents and atmospheric pressure in this section of the Atlantic Ocean, the water is almost stationary, except for the powerful, ascending streams from a 7-kilometer depth, discovered by Soviet oceanographers in the 1970s.
But it is not the absence of “material” shores that attracts researchers here, namely algae and sargassus. Here is the largest cluster of them. It is possible that once the sailors found themselves in a particularly dense area: among experienced sailors, the story quickly becomes overgrown with extraneous details, and as a result, a real legend is obtained. It is possible that Belyaev included one of such legends in his novel: the ship got stuck in a dense Sargasso "mess" and could not get out of there. The crew perished from hunger and thirst, and the ships bound by seaweed were destroyed one by one among the Sargassos. In the "Island of the Lost Ships" this version has found its place (there were many like it): in the center of the Sargasso Sea, the ships captured by its brown-green captivity formed a whole island, on which, by some miracle, the surviving crew members supported their existence ... In fairness, it should be noted that to this day this version attracts many scientists: even at the beginning of the last century, Danish microbiologist E. Winge would describe a case when a ship hit a real Sargasso field - wherever you look, everything around was densely covered with algae, and free water was visible only near the sides of the vessel. During his historic journey, Columbus also encountered the Sargassos: he aptly dubbed this part of the Atlantic "a jar of seaweed."
It is believed that for the first time the name "bank" was given by Portuguese sailors: the underwater part of the algae, due to the presence of air bubbles on it, is very similar to a bunch of one of the grape varieties - "sargasso", hence the second name of the sea, which was very popular in its time - Grape ... The seaweed itself is still called “sea grapes”. A small bush, no more than one and a half meters long, is mostly hidden under the surface of the water, the visible part is just a few leaves that act as a sail. Initially, the roots of the plant cling to the bottom, but, breaking off and following the current or gusts of wind, they get lost in the so-called thalli, which make up the Sargasso Sea. There was another version, according to which floating sargassums are formed "in situ", vegetatively; however, over time, it was dispelled: being cut off from the bottom, sargassians do not breed. One way or another, but within the sea there are up to 11 tons. In the Sargasso Sea, representatives of about 60 species of living creatures and plants coexist calmly with each other. On the scale of the ocean, this is negligible, and even this can soon be lost: not so long ago, among the sargassum thallus, another “layer” was formed, the fault of which is man. The currents that outline the boundaries of the sea become unwitting accomplices in garbage collection. Everything that gets into the Gulf Stream in the west, the Canary Current in the east, the North Atlantic in the north and the North Tradewind in the south, all the garbage - everything is “concentrated” in the Sargasso Sea. Plastic and other waste has formed a floating layer of debris there.
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Since 2008, research has been organized, samples are taken, laboratories are opened to study the garbage continent. I would be very happy to write that there are regular works on cleaning the ocean and recycling the waste floating there, but, unfortunately, I cannot. So far, the learned world provides only words. A spot in the Sargasso Sea, a “garbage dump” in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and hundreds and thousands of similar, smaller formations that float in all open waters and ... no one cares about them. Neutral territory.