Lake Tondano is the largest lake in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
| Lake Tondano | |
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 Lake Tondano | |
  Lake Tondano | |
| Location | North Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Coordinates | 1°13′30″N 124°54′00″E / 1.225°N 124.900°E |
| Type | lake |
| Surface elevation | 600 m (2,000 ft) |
The lake is approximately 36 kilometres (22 mi) from the city of Manado and is 600 metres (2,000 ft) above sea level.[1]
In recent years there have been reports of decreasing water levels at Lake Tondano; from 1934 when it was 40 metres (130 ft), to 1993 to 23 metres (75 ft), 18 metres (59 ft) in 1996 and 12 metres (39 ft) in 2010.[2]
The halfbeak fish Tondanichthys kottelati and calanoid copepod Phyllodiaptomus sulawesensis are endemic to the lake.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Tondano Lake". Archived from the original on 10 August 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ "N. Sulawesi's Lake Tondano now only 12 meters deep | the Jakarta Post". Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Tondanichthys kottelati". FishBase. February 2017 version.
External links
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