Lake Magadi
Lake Magadi is a shallow soda lake in the southwest of the Ngorogoro crater in northeastern Tanzania. It is fed by the Munge River and the Seneto springs.- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Tanzania
- Also known as: “Lake Magad”
Lake Magadi
- Category: body of water
- Location: Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-3.1933° or 3° 11′ 36″ south
Longitude
35.5357° or 35° 32′ 9″ east
Elevation
1,730 metres (5,676 feet)
Open location code
6G8QRG4P+M7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=lake
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Slovak—“Lake Magadi” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “馬加迪湖”
- Czech: “jezero Magadi”
- Esperanto: “Lago Magadi”
- French: “Lac Magadi”
- German: “Magadisee”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Magadi (Ngorongoro)”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Magadi”
- Italian: “Lago Magadi”
- Slovak: “jazero Magadi”
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