![]() The Great Rift Valley stretches from northern Ethiopia to Mozambique in the south, a distance of about 5600km. ![]() The lake is also surrounded by scattered springs, some of which are fresh enough to provide drinking water for many species of animals, large and small. The combination of remoteness and the hostility of the soda mud-flats provides the flamingos with a relatively safe area to breed and rear chicks. Algae and zooplankton thrive in this water, which in turn supports great numbers of flamingos. Here the water evaporates leaving behind very high concentrations of soda. Lake Natron sits at the lowest point of the valley in East Africa at an altitude of 600m or 2000feet above sea level. ![]()
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