El Golftet ( Spanish Golfete Dulce ) is a lake in eastern Guatemala . The lake area is 62 km² [1] (also called the number 58.559 km² [2] ), it is located at sea level [1] . The length of El Golfet is 15 km, width - from 3 to 5 km [3] . The average depth of 4-5 meters, the bottom is covered with a layer of silt [3] . The maximum depth is 20 m . Located in the valley between the mountains of Santa Cruz in the north-west, the mountains of Minas and Isidro in the south. The shore of the lake between Chokon-Machaka and Chikimilily is periodically flooded [2] . There are four islands on the lake: Quatro Cayos, Cayo Julio, Cayo Grende and Cayo Palomo [2] .
| Lake | |
| El golfet | |
|---|---|
| isp. Golfete dulce | |
 | |
| Morphometry | |
| Absolute height | 0 m |
| Dimensions | 15 × 5 km |
| Square | 62 km² |
| Deepest | 20 m |
| Pool | |
| Flowing rivers | Rio Dulce , Chocon Machaca , Tameha |
| Flowing river | Rio dulce |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| Department | Isabal |
Through the lake flows the river Rio Dulce , which flows into the Gulf of Honduras ( Caribbean Sea ). The rivers Chocon-Machaka and Tamekh also flow into the lake [4] .
Climate
The average annual temperature in the vicinity of the lake is 27 ° С, the annual precipitation is 3600 mm [2] .
Nature
On the coast of the northeastern tip of the lake there is a mangrove forest . The lake is part of the National Park "Rio Dulce" [2] .
In the lake there are fish of the order somobraznye , cyclomasomes , centropomas , bricons , black crappie , crabs of the genus Potamocartinus [3] . Habitat population of manatees is noted [5]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Ministerio de comunicaciones Infraestructura y Vivienda. Indice de lagos Unsolved (inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is January 17, 2012. Archived on February 4, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Yañez-Arancibia, Alejandro, Zárate Lomeli, David, and Terán Cuevas, Angel. 1994. EPOMEX. CEP Technical Report No. 34. UNEP Caribbean Environment Program, Kingston, Jamaica. 64 pp., P. 8, 10, 16
- 2 1 2 3 GB Saunders, AD Holloway, CO Handley . A fish and wildlife survey, Guatemala US Fish and Wildlife Service, 1950., pp. 114-115
- ↑ Map sheet D-16-A .
- ↑ MF Corona Figueroa. Parque Nacional Rio Dulce: Habitat importante para la conservación del manatí Antillano Trichechus manatus manatus (Sirenia: Trichechidae) . Ciencia y conservación 2013, vol. 4: 29-39.