Lake Malawi

the lake turns golden at sunset

Lake Malawi is an African Great Lake and the southmost lake in the Great Rift Valley system of East Africa. This lake, the third largest in Africa and the eighth largest lake in the world, is located between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. It is the second deepest lake in Africa, though its placid northern shore gives no hint of its depth. Indeed it's the third deepest lake in the World. This great lake's tropical waters reportedly are the habitat of more species of fish than that of any other body of water on the Earth.

The lake is between 560 and 580 kilometres long, and about 75 kilometres wide at its widest point. The total surface area of this lake is about 29,600 square kilometres (11,429 square miles).This lake has shorelines on western Mozambique, eastern Malawi, and southern Tanzania. The largest river flowing into this lake is the Ruhuhu River. This large freshwater lake has an outlet, which is the Shire River, a tributary that flows into the very large Zambezi River. About a quarter of the lake is actually part of Mozambique.

It has been a World Heritage site since 1984.