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- adjective of a lake or basin Internally drained; having no outlet.
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Examples
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Lake Chilwa is an endorheic basin draining rivers originating from the eastern slopes of the Shire Highlands, the Zomba Plateau and the northern slopes of the Mulanje Massif.
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Being the "sink" of an endorheic basin, its surface area is very variable but is on average 683 km2, of which 721 km2 lies in Malawi.
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The South Interior, which also is an endorheic basin, occupies the remaining area (about 63%) and includes the Kalahari Desert and the Makgadikgadi Pans.
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The Okavango basin, which is an endorheic basin, occupies about 9% in the northwest;
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It is also drained by the endorheic Cuando-Cubango system and the Cunene River.
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Rift Valley (endorheic) basins, of which amongst others:
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Drainage of the lake is a serious threat because Patzcuaro is in the middle of an endorheic basin, thus its sole sources of refill is rainwater and the infiltration provided by the surrounding forests.
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If there were no saltwater seas, then the endorheic basins would have to be very unstable, preventing bodies of water to become older than a couple of hundred years.
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As said earlier, saltwater lakes are explained easily as being endorheic.
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And the given references don't mention any are receding in volume too rapidly to have existed millions of years ago endorheic lakes exist - lakes without an outflow to rivers or the ocean.
seanahan commented on the word endorheic
A closed water system, including many lakes, like the Caspian Sea.
November 11, 2007
Beef_Pies commented on the word endorheic
An endorheic basin is a closed drainage basin into which water flows, but no outflow happens. Bodies of water contained by endorheic basins usually have very high salt content, for they usually sit atop a salt pan. The Caspian Sea is in an endorheic basin.
June 25, 2009