Lake Tondano

Lake Tondano is the largest lake in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Lake Tondano
Location of the lake in Indonesia.
Location of the lake in Indonesia.
Lake Tondano
LocationNorth Sulawesi, Indonesia
Coordinates1.228°N 124.898°E / 1.228; 124.898
Typelake
Surface elevation600 metres (2,000 ft)

The lake is approximately 36 kilometres (22 mi) from the city of Manado and is 600 metres (2,000 ft) above sea level.[1]

In recent years there have been reports of decreasing water levels at Lake Tondano; from 1934 when it was 40 metres (130 ft), to 1993 to 23 metres (75 ft), 18 metres (59 ft) in 1996 and 12 metres (39 ft) in 2010.[2]

The halfbeak fish Tondanichthys kottelati and calanoid copepod Phyllodiaptomus sulawesensis are endemic to the lake.[3]

References
  1. "Tondano Lake".
  2. "N. Sulawesi's Lake Tondano now only 12 meters deep | the Jakarta Post". Archived from the original on 2015-12-01. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Tondanichthys kottelati" in FishBase. February 2017 version.

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