According to the fluctuations Banks lined with red, cracked soil, emerging reliefs or exposed shallows; the absence of rain reveals a morphology usually hidden. The weather makes this landscape extremely dynamic. The colour of the water changes from blue to ochre red, depending on the strength of the rains, the chiaroscuro of the sky playing on the appearance of the lake. M N S B C P 43 Direction of Sustainable Development of the South Province Territories I Strolling along the waterways Yaté Lake Ramsar area perimeter Pérignon Bridge (P) Yaté’s road pass Djuru dere Fluctuations & confluence Blue River Provincial Park Protected area Yaté Dam The Park House- BRPP 42 Strolling along the waterways Yaté Lake, a centrality An aquatic landscape unit O extended sky Soothing at bedtime Infinite dream Drown your gaze in the immensity of the azure “The Yaté Lake, like a great silver river, winds between the festoons of red earth which border the green islets. The sun caresses the surface of the water and the light bursts everywhere in brilliant showers. The marsh of the White River spreads its colourful fringes in the misty distance...” GR®NC1 Guide, From Prony to Dumbéa, Jean-Francis Clair The Drowned Forest The Kiki Swamp The Yaté River C K C D At the rivers’ confluences, anhuge reservoir A feeling of embraced immensity dominates. The reliefs form the background of the infinite horizon of this lake: the foothills of the central chain to the West and North, the Yaté plateau to the East, and small chains separating it from the Southern plateau. Islets with marbled banks mark the body of water whose very jagged fringes follow the contours of the relief, thus revealing the high points of yesterday’s plain, now flooded. The low mining shrub vegetation around the lake testifies to the artificialization of this body of water which, on its fersiallitic banks, only presents little flora typical of freshwaterwetlands. © Bernard Suprin Under Yaté Lake, when the dam was emptied in 1991, an ancient landscape was revealed, that of a river cut into the shape of a mini-canyon.
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