Lake Tissongo

Lake Tissongo
Coordinates 3°34′8″N 9°52′44″E / 3.56889°N 9.87889°E / 3.56889; 9.87889Coordinates: 3°34′8″N 9°52′44″E / 3.56889°N 9.87889°E / 3.56889; 9.87889
Type reservoir
Primary inflows Sanaga River
Basin countries Cameroon

Lake Tissongo is a lake of western Cameroon. It is situated within the Douala Edéa Wildlife Reserve of Littoral Province, and is connected to the south bank of the Sanaga River by a 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) tidal channel. The lake drains into the river about 40 kilometres downstream of Edéa.[1] The area is biologically rich.[2] The villagers of five villages in the reserve in the area earn their livelihoods from hunting bushmeat, and a 1990 survey found some 50 firearms in the area around Lake Tissongo.[3]

References

  1. ↑ IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre; IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas; International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources; United Nations Environment Programme, Global Environmental Monitoring System (1 August 1987). IUCN directory of Afrotropical protected areas. IUCN. p. 91. Retrieved 29 August 2012. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
  2. ↑ West, Ben (18 October 2011). Cameroon, 3rd. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-84162-353-5. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  3. ↑ IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group; World Wildlife Fund (U.S.); State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dept. of Anatomical Sciences; Conservation International, BioOne (Organization) (1990). Primate conservation: the newsletter and journal of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group. World Wildlife Fund and the Dept. of Anatomical Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook. p. 10. Retrieved 29 August 2012. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
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