Therefore, halophile organisms include a few cyanobacteria that make their own food with photosynthesis as plants do. Due to high evaporation rates, the color of the lake is characteristic during the dry season, salinity levels rise at a certain point where the salt-loving microorganisms start to flourish. The Lake’s alkalinity reaches a pH of more than 12, making the surrounding bedrock composed of alkaline, sodium-dominated trachyte lavas that were laid down during the Pleistocene period. Natron Lake has high levels of evaporation left behind natron, and trona (sodium, carbonate, decahydrate, sesquicarbonate dehydrate). The Lake Natron is also the World Wildlife Fund East African halophytics ecoregion. Due to its exclusive biodiversity, Tanzania has named The Lake Natron Basin to the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International significance. The Natron Lake temperature is falling above 40 ☌ (104 ☏). The Lake Natron is quite shallow just 9.8 feet deep, 57 KM long, and 22 KM wide.

The water level varies depending on its water. The Lake is mainly fed by Ewaso Ng’iro River, which rises in central Kenya, and by mineral-rich hot springs.

Lake Natron is a salt and soda lake in the Arusha Region of Northern Tanzania, close to Kenyan Border in Gregory Rift.

Natron lake color