Lago Rosa - Senegal - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

The adjective pink comes from the color of its waters, which become especially pinkish during the dry season. This is due to an algae called Dunaliella salina that produces a red pigment to absorb sunlight. The high level of salinity allows people to float easily, as in the Dead Sea. Around the lake are small salt mining operations that began in the 1970s. The men, with water up to their chests, break up the salt deposited on the bottom with sticks before scooping it up with shovels and filling canoes with a capacity of up to one ton. The women unload the canoes and accumulate the salt on the edge of the lake to dry and bleach it in the sun. Both men and women protect themselves from the corrosive salinity by smearing themselves with shea butter. The salt is used for canned fish or for export.

The lake is known worldwide for having been the arrival of the Paris Dakar rally in almost all its editions until 2008, when the organization decided to suspend the competition and move it to South America from 2008.

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