Tislit Lake
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| Lake Tislit | |
|---|---|
 Lake Tislit | |
  Lake Tislit Location within Morocco | |
| Location | Haut Atlas Oriental National Park, Morocco |
| Coordinates | 32°11′42″N 5°38′15″W / 32.19500°N 5.63750°W |
| Lake type | Meromictic lake |
| Basin countries | Morocco |
| 1.3 km2 (0.50 sq mi)[1] | |
Average depth | 16 m (52 ft)[1] |
Surface elevation | 2,119 m (6,952 ft) |
Official name | Lacs Isly-Tislite |
| Designated | 15 January 2005 |
| Reference no. | 1480[2] |
Lake Tislit is a lake located in Morocco's Haut Atlas Oriental National Park, in the administrative division of Imilchil. This is an "agdal" (which means "proprietary grazing field" in the Berber language) where the tribes of Ayt Ḥdiddu lead their flocks during the summer. The lake has been designated as a protected Ramsar site since 2005.[2][3]
Every year in September, a significant festival is held at the lake.
Lakes Isli and Tislit are named after epoymous characters from a Moroccan popular legend. A study suggested that both lakes were impact craters, given the presence of iron fragment and other materials around the lakes belonging to the same parent meteorite.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Chaabout, S.; Chennaoui Aoudjehane, H.; Reimold, W. U.; Aboulahris, M.; Aoudjehane, M. (August 2013). "Evidence of Non-Impact Cratering Origin of Imilchil (Morocco) Lakes (Isli and Tislit)" (PDF). Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V, Proceedings of the conference. Sudbury, Ontario: Geological Society of America. p. 3074.
- 1 2 "Lacs Isly-Tislite". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ↑ Kraus, Wolfgang (1991). Die Ayt Ḥdiddu: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im zentralen Hohen Atlas: ein Beitrag zur Diskussion segmentärer Systeme in Marokko. Sitzungsberichte / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-7001-1877-0.
- ↑ Ibhi, Abderrahmane; Nachit, Hassane; Abia, El Hassan; AIT Touchnt, Ahmed (2013). "Isli and Tislit: The First Dual Impact Crater Discovered in Morocco". International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics.