Lake Sélingué

Infobox lake
lake_name = Lake Sélingué
image_lake = Lac_S%C3%A9lingu%C3%A92.jpg
caption_lake = Fishermen casting nets on Lake Sélingué
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location =Koulikoro Region
coords = coord|11|37|N|8|14|W|type:waterbody_region:ML|display=inline,title
type =Monomictic reservoir
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basin_countries = Mali, Guinea
length =
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area = 409 km² (max)
depth =5.3 m
max-depth =20 m
volume =2166 km³
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elevation = 348.5 m - 339.983 m
islands =
cities =La Carrière, Faraba

Lake Sélingué is a 409 km² artificial lake in Mali's Koulikoro Region, formed by the Sélingué Hydroelectric dam on the Sankarani River. Its southwestern arm forms part of the border with Guinea. Lake Sélingué, rising and falling in the rainy and dry seasons, allows agriculture on the irrigated perimeters, managed by the Office of Rural Development of Sélingué, as well as fishing. Since its creation, numerous communities have grown along the lake, the two largest being the towns of La Carrière and Faraba. Fishing the lake provides employment for more than 8,000 people in its various fishing communities, with an annual catch of around 4,000 tonnes. Most fish available in Bamako come from Lake Selingue. [Knaap, M. van der. Status of fish stocks and fisheries of thirteen medium-sized African reservoirs. CIFA Technical Paper. No. 26. Rome, FAO. 1994. 107p.] Selingue is Mali's second largest artificial lake (reservoir) after Lake Manantali, created by the construction of the Manantali dam in 1988.

References

*Portions of this article were translated from the French language Wikipedia article , 2008-03-06.
* [http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/docrep/005/V4110E/V4110E04.htm FAO report on Selingue dam]
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* [http://www.sflp.org/fr/007/pub1/bul19_art7.htm "Mali : pêcheries de Sélingué - La concertation, source de paix sociale", par Bréhima Touré] .
* [http://www.grdc.sr.unh.edu/html/Polygons/P1134050.html UNH-GRDC Composite Runoff Fields Data V1.0] , 1964-1990. Inflow to Lake Sélingué from the Sankarani River.
*P. Morand, IRD, SFLP consultant and C. Breuil, RSU Planning Officer, SFLP, [http://www.sflp.org/eng/007/pub1/81.htm Fisheries in Sélingué: towards a participatory management which is better integrated into local development. Sustainable Fisheries Livelihood Program] : Number 8.
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003EAEJA.....1768A Arfi, R. Ecological changes and water level variation in Sélingué Reservoir (Mali)] . EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #1768.