What Is The Smallest Lake In Uganda
What Is The Smallest Lake In Uganda : Lake Edward is known to be the smallest lake in Uganda, it is also ranked as the 15th in size among all the sizable lakes that are found in Africa covering a total surface area of about 2325 square kilometers, and it lies at an elevated area of about 920 meters above the sea level. More so, Lake Edward covers a maximum length of about 77 kilometers and it is around 112 meters deep measuring around 40 kilometers wide. Lake Edward is located in the Southwestern region of Uganda in Kasese district and it is known to be fed by several rivers such as; Ishasha river, Ntungwe River, Rutshuru River, Rwindi River and Nyamugasani river among others.
Lake Edward is situated within Queen Elizabeth National park, which is famously known as the most visited game park in the country, and it is ranked as the second largest national park in Uganda after Murchison falls national park. therefore, with the main aim of visiting this lake it also blesses tourists to be able to explore through the beautiful landscapes with the park as you get chances to overlook at many attractions like crater lakes, the tree climbing lions and many other mammal species such as; the endangered chimpanzees, black and white colobus monkeys among others.
More so, as tourists enjoy their notable experience while touring on Lake Edward, they can also opt to after engage into other interesting activities where they also learn new experiences and create remarkable memories. Therefore, some of these activities include; game viewing, guided nature walks where they are always accompanied by the park guides whose role is to lead them through different trails and provide more information incase tourists would love to understand something better along the way, chimpanzee trekking, mongoose tracking, visiting the coffee plantations, community visits and cultural encounters and this always involves visitors to interact with the local people and get to learn more about them for example; their culture, traditions and customs among others.
History about Lake Edward.
A European explorer who was named Henry Morton Stanley in 1888 discovered Lake Edward. In addition, this lake was named after Prince Albert Edward who was the son of the British Monarch. However, during the regime of Idi Amin Dada who was the former president of Uganda, he named the lake after his name but unfortunately, after his downfall which happened during 1979, the lake was renamed again.
Wildlife in Lake Edward.
Lake Edward is considered to be among the destinations one can opt to visit while on your adventurous safari in Uganda because it is surrounded with open savannah grasslands and the dense forests of Queen Elizabeth national park which makes it to be home to a variety of many wildlife species and these animals are considered to be one of the top tourist attractions in the country and some of these animals to see include; the African elephants, chimpanzees, crocodiles, buffalos, hippos, lions among others. more so, this area is also a better spot for bird lovers to visit and some of these birds species that tourists can see include; grey kestrel, African crake, Guinea fowl, black bellied bustard, African wattled plover, the rare saddle-billed stork and many others.
Lake Edward is a home to many types of fish species which makes it an awesome fishing activity and some of these fish species include; Bugrass Docmark, Leocosticus, Oreo chromil, Haplochromis, Haplochromine among others. more so, visiting this lake Edward blesses tourists with spectacular views of the montane woodland which is situated in the western Albertine rift region which is a few kilometers away from Virunga national park, tourists can also capture classic views of the semiliki river valley that lies within the northwestern shore and other surrounding swamps like; Rwindi, Ishasha, Rutshuru river swamp which is situated along the northeastern shores of Edward.
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