Tafkin Elmenteita

Tafkin Elmenteita Tafkin soda ne, a cikin Great Rift Valley, kimanin kilomita 120 a arewa maso yammacin Nairobi, Kenya. Yanayin ƙasa Elmenteita an samo shi ne daga kalmar Maasai muteita, ma'ana "wurin ƙura", wanda ke nuni da bushewa da ƙura na yankin, musamman daga Janairu zuwa Maris. Garin Gilgil yana kusa da tafkin. A cikin jerin kudu zuwa arewacin tabkuna na Rift Valley, Elmenteita tana tsakanin Tafkin Naivasha da Tafkin Nakuru. Tare da tsaunin da ke kusa, babbar hanyar Nairobi-Nakuru (Hanyar A104) tana ba masu motoci kyakkyawan ra'ayi na tafkin. A yau tafkin yanki ne mai kariya saboda rayuwar tsuntsaye kuma an sanya masa suna a matsayin Gidan Tarihin Duniya na UNESCO tare da Tafkin Nakuru da Tafkin Bogoria. Kimanin shekaru 10,000 da suka gabata, Tafkin Elementaita, tare da makwabta Nakuru da Bogoria, sun kafa tafkin ruwa mai zurfi guda ɗaya wanda daga ƙarshe ya bushe, ya bar tabkuna uku a matsayin ragowar. A kudancin ƙarshen tafkin akwai maɓuɓɓugar ruwa mai zafi "Kekopey", inda aka gabatar da kifi, Lake Magadi tilapia, ya haifa. Gidajen reed da ke kusa da su wuraren kamun kifi ne ga herons na dare da pelicans. Tafkin soda ne (babban alkalinity, babban bambancin halittu). Tarihi Yankin Tafkin Elmenteita ya ga fararen zama na farko lokacin da Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere (1879-1931) ya kafa Ranch na Soysambu a kan 190-square-kilomita (48,000-acre) na ƙasa a gefen yammacin tafkin. Ya ba da ƙasa a wancan gefen tafkin ga surukinsa, Galbraith Lowry Egerton Cole (1881-1929), wani ɓangare na ranch din Kekopey, inda aka binne shi, an kiyaye shi a yau a matsayin Lake Elementaita Lodge. Gidan Soysambu, wanda har yanzu mallakar Iyalin Delamere ne, ya rufe kashi biyu bisa uku na bakin teku kuma yana da gida ga dabbobi sama da 12,000. Tafkin da kansa ya kasance shafin Ramsar tun shekara ta 2005. Muhalli Fiye da nau'in tsuntsaye 400 an rubuta su a cikin tafkin Nakuru / tafkin Elmenteita. Elmenteita yanka jan hankalin flamingoes masu ziyara, duka mafi girma da ƙananan iri, waɗanda ke ciyar da ƙwayoyin ƙwayoyin cuta da ƙwayoyi na tafkin da kuma algae mai launin shudi-kore, bi da bi. An gabatar da Lake Magadi tilapia zuwa tafkin daga Lake Magadi a cikin 1962 kuma tun daga wannan lokacin yawan flamingo ya ragu sosai. Tilapia yana jan hankalin tsuntsaye masu cin kifi da yawa waɗanda ke cin ƙwai da kaji na flamingo. Fiye da tsuntsaye miliyan daya da suka haifa a Elmenteita yanzu an ce sun nemi mafaka a Tafkin Natron a Tanzania. Tafkin yawanci ba shi da zurfi (kasa da zurfin 1 m) kuma yana da iyaka da laka mai laushi a lokacin lokutan fari. A lokacin marigayi Pleistocene da farkon Holocene, Tafkin Elmenteita a wasu lokuta an haɗa shi da tafkin Nakuru mai fadada, wanda ya samar da tafkin da ya fi girma. Ana adana ragowar tsohon tafkin da aka haɗu a matsayin datti a wurare daban-daban a kusa da tafkin tafkin, gami da tsoffin bakin teku. Kwanan nan matakin tafkin da yawan flamingoes sun ragu yayin da karuwar ayyukan ɗan adam suka bushe wuraren da aka kama. Shafukan da aka haɗa Kusa da shi akwai Gidan Tarihi na Kariandusi, a wani muhimmin shafin prehistoric inda Louis Leakey ya gano hannayen hannu da cleavers a 1928. Elmenteita Badlands wani dutse ne mai gudana zuwa kudancin tafkin, an rufe shi da daji kuma ya haɗa da wasu tsaunuka masu ban sha'awa. Manazarta