Lake Faguibine (spear-shaped) from space, April 1991. The River Niger is shown at the bottom right hand corner, Lake Oro at the lower left and Lake Fati lower right
Lake Faguibine was a lake in Mali on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert situated 80 km west of Timbuktu and 75 km north of the Niger River to which it is connected by a system of smaller lakes and channels. In years when the height of the annual flood of the river is sufficient, water flows from the river into the lake. Since the Sahel drought of the 1970s and 1980s the lake has been mostly dry. Water has only rarely reached the lake and even when it has done so, the lake has been only partially filled with water. This has caused a partial collapse of the local ecosystem.
In 2021, Lake Figuibine was entirely dry.[1] A gas emanating from the dry ground destroys the remaining vegetation and renders the soil unfit for cultivation.
^"Changement climatique au Mali : le désert engloutit le lac Faguibine, la population poussée à l'exode". Multimedia Newsroom of the International Committee of the Red Cross. 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
LakeFaguibine was a lake in Mali on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert situated 80 km west of Timbuktu and 75 km north of the Niger River to which...
Owens Lake". Imperial Valley Press. "Current Information on the Salton Sea". Pacific Institute. Retrieved 2022-07-14. "Drying of LakeFaguibine, Mali"...
the Malian Lakes Region, which is located in northwestern Inland Niger Delta region of the Niger River, near LakeFaguibine and the Faguibine Depression...
south east corner of LakeFaguibine near the channel that connects LakeFaguibine to Lake Takara. The commune includes all of Lake Takara and a small section...
confirmed records are known in Mauritania, Tunisia and Libya. In Mali's LakeFaguibine area, one individual was shortly sighted by night in 2011. In the Ténéré...
conjoined circular drystone structures, and on the eastern side of Lake Faguibine, there are similar enclosures and structures spanning 74 kilometers north...
that the core of Wagadou was not Koumbi Saleh but in fact lay near LakeFaguibine, on the Niger Bend. This area was historically more fertile than the...
of Goudam in the Tombouctou Region of Mali. It lies to the south of LakeFaguibine. Schéma Directeur de Lutte Contre l’Ensablement dans le Nord du Mali...
Pesticide use has threatened birdlife in nearby Doñana. Further south, LakeFaguibine in Mali is another stopover point but it has been affected by drought...
by the mid-15th century CE, the Iwellemmedan controlled an area from LakeFaguibine and north of Timbuktu east through all of what is now the Gao Region...
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of the town of Timbuktu. The commune includes LakeFaguibine and two depressions, Lake Kamango and Lake Gouber, which fill with water in years when the...
Further north lies LakeFaguibine and to the south and west is the vast Niger inland delta, seasonal marshlands which feed the local lakes and rivers along...
is on the south shore of LakeFaguibine. The commune includes areas of land both to the south and to the north of the lake. Schéma Directeur de Lutte...
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