Friday, August 26, 2011

Beautiful Lake Malawi in Africa

Lake Malawi (also known as Lake Nyasa in most countries, or Lake Nyassa, Lake Niassa, or Lago Niassa in Mozambique), the African Great Lakes and the lakes in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. This lake is the third largest lake in Africa and the world's eighth largest lake situated between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. This lake is also the second deepest lake in Africa, but the nature of the quiet north coast do not give signs of its depth. This large lake is the habitat of tropical waters reported more species of fish from other lakes on Earth.

Nyaza Lake Malawi or Lake is a lake that has a length of between 560 and 580 kilometers, and its width is about 75 kilometers. Total lake surface area is approximately 29,600 square kilometers of the shoreline of the lake in western Mozambique, eastern Malawi, and southern Tanzania. Largest river flowing into this lake is Ruhuhu River. This large freshwater lake has the main outflow, namely the Shire River, a tributary that flows into the Zambezi River.
Lake Malawi is located in the Great Rift Valley formed by the opening of the East African valley, where the African tectonic plate is divided into two parts. This is called a divergent plate boundary tectonics. Lake Malawi or Nyaza itself formed about 40,000 years, or about one or two million years.

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