Lake Chad
The Bol Archipelago
Hundreds of elongated islands — drowned dunes — separated by channels navigated by pirogue.
Lake
- Coordinates
- 13.4667° N, 14.7167° E
- Lake
- Lake Chad
History
The Bol archipelago is the Chadian portion of Lake Chad, and the most legible: its islands are former dune ridges drowned by rising water, which gives them the elongated, parallel shape so characteristic from the air.
The Buduma — 'people of the grass' — herd the Kouri cow, a breed whose enormous hollow horns act as floats: it swims from island to island to graze. On the shores, women harvest spirulina from the surface of the pools, dry it into cakes — dihé — and sell it at market.
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The Bol Archipelago en images
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