Sahel
Chad
Moyen-Chari Region

Iro Lake

Iro Lake is a cyclically occurring lake in the Moyen-Chari Region in southeastern . It is fed in the summer and autumn months from the eastern arm of the , which forks seven kilometers southwest of the lake.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in Chad
  • Also known as: “Iro بحيرة إيرو” and “Lac Iro”

Iro Lake

Latitude
10.10774° or 10° 6′ 28″ north
Longitude
19.42532° or 19° 25′ 31″ east
Elevation
387 metres (1,270 feet)
Open location code
7F2X4C5G+34
Open­Street­Map ID
way 22375858
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
2431230
Wiki­data ID
Q1673068
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Satellite Map

Discover Iro Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Iro Lake” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بحيرة إيرو”
  • Burmese: “အိုင်ရိုကန်”
  • Cebuano: “Lac Iro”
  • French: “lac Iro”
  • French: “Lac Iro”
  • Georgian: “იროს ტბა”
  • German: “Iro-See”
  • Italian: “Lago Iro”
  • Polish: “Iro”
  • Russian: “Иро”
  • Spanish: “Lago Iro”
  • Turkish: “Iro Gölü”
  • Venetian: “lago Iro”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Iro Lake”. Photo: Robertgrafl, Public domain.