Lake Sélingué
Lake Sélingué is a 409 km2 artificial lake in Mali's Sikasso Region, formed by the Sélingué Hydroelectric dam on the Sankarani River. Its southwestern arm forms part of the border with Guinea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: lake in Mali
- Also known as: “Lake Selingue”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sélingué Dam.
Sélingué Dam
Dam
The Sélingué Dam is an embankment dam with a gravity section located in the Sikasso Region, on the Sankarani River, one of the affluents of the Niger River. Sélingué Dam is situated 3 km north of Lake Sélingué.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Binko.
Binko
Town
Binko is a village and seat of the commune of Tagandougou in the Cercle of Yanfolila in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The village is 52 km north of Yanfolila on the western side of the Sélingué Dam. Binko is situated 3 km north of Lake Sélingué.
Lake Sélingué
- Category: body of water
- Location: Sikasso, Mali, Sahel, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Lake Sélingué” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sélingué (aintzira)”
- Basque: “Sélingué”
- Chinese: “塞林蓋湖”
- Finnish: “Sélingué”
- French: “Lac de Selingue”
- French: “lac de Sélingué”
- French: “Lac de Sélingué”
- Indonesian: “Danau Sélingué”
- Italian: “lago di Sélingué”
- Japanese: “セリンゲ湖”
- Lithuanian: “Selingės tvenkinys”
- Portuguese: “Lago de Sélingué”
- Russian: “Селэнге (водохранилище)”
- Russian: “Селэнге”
- Spanish: “Lago de Selingue”
- Spanish: “Lago de Sélingué”
- Welsh: “Llyn Sélingué”
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