Lake Sélingué is a 409 km² artificial lake in Mali's Sikasso Region, formed by the Sélingué Hydroelectric dam on the

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. Its southwestern arm forms part of the border with

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. 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

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and

Faraba Faraba is a village and rural commune in the Cercle of Kéniéba in the Kayes Region of south-western Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi M ...

. 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 Sélingué.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. Lake-Selingue-NASA-Worldwind

Sélingué is Mali's second largest artificial lake ( reservoir) after

Lake Manantali Lake Manantali is a large artificial lake, formed by the 1989 construction of the Manantali Dam, on the Bafing River in Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 ...

, created by the construction of the

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in 1988.

References

*Portions of this article were translated from the French language Wikipedia article :fr:Lac de Sélingué, 2008-03-06.
FAO report on Selingue dam
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* ttp://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

. *P. Morand, IRD, SFLP consultant and C. Breuil, RSU Planning Officer, SFLP
Fisheries in Sélingué: towards a participatory management which is better integrated into local development. Sustainable Fisheries Livelihood Program
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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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lake Selingue Selingue Guinea–Mali border Selingue Bodies of water of Guinea