Lakes of Ounianga
The Lakes of Ounianga are a series of lakes in the Sahara Desert, in North-Eastern Chad, occupying a basin in the mountains of West Tibesti and Ennedi East.Photo: Jacques Taberlet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Jacques Taberlet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Lake Yoa
Photo: Jacques Taberlet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Yoa is the most famous, and second largest of the Lakes of Ounianga, a series of Lakes in Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region basin of northeastern Chad.
Lake Katam
Photo: Jacques Taberlet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lake Katam is one of the larger lakes in Ounianga Kebir, a lake system in the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region in the north-east basin of Chad.
Lakes of Ounianga
- Type: group of lakes
- Description: lakes in north-eastern Chad
- Location: Saharan Chad, Chad, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
19.055° or 19° 3' 18" northLongitude
20.5056° or 20° 30' 20" eastOpen Location Code
7GF23G44+26Wikidata ID
Q547375Lakes of Ounianga Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: بحيرات أونيانجا
- Asturian: Llagos de Unianga
- Avaric: Ounianga uzdeem
- Azerbaijani: Unianqa gölləri
- Catalan: Llacs d'Ounianga
- Catalan: llacs d'Ounianga
- Chinese: 乌尼昂加湖泊群
- Croatian: Ounianga
- Czech: Jezera Ounianga
- Czech: Ounianga
- Dutch: Meren van Ounianga
- Esperanto: Lagoj Unianga
- Esperanto: Lagoj de Unianga
- Finnish: Ouniangan järvet
- French: Lacs d'Ounianga
- French: lacs d'Ounianga
- Georgian: უნიანგის ტბები
- German: Seen von Ounianga
- Greek: Λίμνες της Ουνιάγγα
- Hebrew: אגמי אוניאגנה
- Hebrew: אגמי אוניאנגה
- Italian: Laghi di Ounianga
- Japanese: ウニアンガ湖群
- Kotava: Ounianga uzdeem
- Latin: Lacus Ounianga
- Latvian: Uniangas ezeri
- Lithuanian: Uniangos ežerai
- Maltese: Lagi ta' Ounianga
- Norwegian: Ounianga-sjøene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ounianga-sjøene
- Persian: دریاچههای اونیانگا
- Polish: Jeziora Ounianga
- Portuguese: Lagos de Ounianga
- Russian: Унианга
- Spanish: Lagos de Unianga
- Swedish: Ouniangasjöarna
- Turkish: Ounianga Gölleri
- Vietnamese: Hệ thống các hồ Ounianga
- Các hồ Ounianga
Localities in the Area
- DiendalemeLocality, 20 km east
- Seker TargoLocality, 38 km east
- Ounianga SerirTown, 42 km east
- AroueliLocality, 46 km north
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Lakes of Ounianga. Photo: Jacques Taberlet, CC BY-SA 3.0.