Le Lac Alaotra : Les Zones Humides et Bassins Versants

lac Alaotra au crépuscule
Lac Alaotra avec ces végétations caractéristiques
Hapalemur alaotrensis (bandro) en pleine activités
marais avec Cyperus madagascariensis: habitat type de Hapalemur alaotrensis (bandro)
 femelle de Hapalemur alaotrensis (bandro)

Le Lac Alaotra : Les Zones Humides et Bassins Versants

  • Country: 
    Madagascar
  • Site number: 
    1312
  • Area: 
    722,500 ha
  • Designation date: 
    09-09-2003
  • Coordinates: 
    17°35'S 48°20'E
Materials presented on this website, particularly maps and territorial information, are as-is and as-available based on available data and do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

Overview

The Ramsar Site includes the four surrounding watercourses (the Sahabe, Sasomanga, Sahamaloto and Anony) and their catchment areas. The wetlands are linked to the Indian Ocean by the Maningory River. The Site is an excellent representative example of the natural wetlands of the eastern Madagascar biogeographical region and includes nine of the twenty inland wetland types identified in the Ramsar system of classification, as well as seven of the ten human-made wetland types. The Site is the only natural habitat of the critically endangered Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis, known locally as bandro) which is the only primate species in the world that lives exclusively in reed beds. The wetlands surrounding the lake have local cultural significance.

Administrative region: 
Région Alaotra Mangoro

  • National legal designation: 
    • Aire protégée - Alaotra Mangoro
  • Last publication date: 
    21-11-2016

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