Tafkin Guiers

Lac de Guiers ko Lake Guiers tafki ne a arewacin Senegal, kudu da birnin Richard-Toll kuma a cikin yankunan Louga da Saint-Louis. Babban tushen ruwa ne ga birnin Dakar, daruruwan kilomita zuwa kudu maso yamma, ta hanyar bututun karkashin kasa.

Tsawonsa ya kai kimanin kilomita 35 da faɗinsa kilomita 8, kuma Kogin Ferlo ko Bounoum, wanda ke kwarara arewa zuwa ƙarshen kudu, daga Fouta a lokacin damina, yana samar da shi. Ruwa yana kwarara zuwa Kogin Senegal arewa ta hanyar Taouey, wanda aka daidaita shi kuma aka yi masa magudanar ruwa yayin da yake ratsawa ta Richard-Toll . An gina madatsar ruwa a shekarar 1916 don hana ruwan gishiri shiga.

Yankin bakin teku galibi suna da kyau. Yankin arewa da kewayen yankin sun zama babban yankin shuka sukari wanda ake ban ruwa daga tafkin.

Lac de Guiers an sanya shi a matsayin Muhimmin Yankin Tsuntsaye ta BirdLife International; mahimman nau'o'in sune ƙananan flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor), glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia), African spoonball (Platalea alba), fararen fuka-fuki tern (Chlidonias leucopterus) da kuma kogi Prinia fluviatilis .

Tafkin yana da tarihin rikitarwa wanda ya shafi masarautun Tekrur da Waalo da Daular Jolof (Diolof) . Musamman, ƙauyen N'Der, babban birni na uku kuma na ƙarshe na tsohuwar Masarautar Waalo, yana kan iyakar yammacin Tafkin. Gidan sarauta ko "keur" har yanzu yana nan. A baya ana kiran Lac de Guiers Lac du Panier Foule ko Pania Fuli, yana nufin Mutanen Fula.