Qattara Depression
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Qattara Depression (Arabic: Mun afa al-Qa rah) is a desert basin within the Libyan Desert of northwestern Egypt in the Matruh Governorate. The Depression, at 133 m below sea level, contains the second lowest point in Africa (The lowest being Lake Assal in Djibouti). The Depression covers about 19,500 km² (7,000 square miles), a size comparable to Lake Erie, and at its maximum is 80 km in length and 120 km in width. The bottom of the depression consists of a salt pan. Within the Depression there are saline marshes under the northwestern and north...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Qattara Depression (Arabic: Mun afa al-Qa rah) is a desert basin within the Libyan Desert of northwestern Egypt in the Matruh Governorate. The Depression, at 133 m below sea level, contains the second lowest point in Africa (The lowest being Lake Assal in Djibouti). The Depression covers about 19,500 km² (7,000 square miles), a size comparable to Lake Erie, and at its maximum is 80 km in length and 120 km in width. The bottom of the depression consists of a salt pan. Within the Depression there are saline marshes under the northwestern and northern escarpment edges, and extensive dry lakes (dry lake beds) that flood occasionally. The major oasis in the depression, Moghra oasis, is uninhabited and has a 4 km² brackish lake, including a Phragmites swamp. Salt marshes also occur and occupy approximately 300 km², although wind blown sands are encroaching in some areas.
