Almost in the center of the vast continent of Eurasia is located - Lake Baikal. In the Baikal mountainous area, surrounded on all sides by high ridges, it spreads to more than six hundred miles long and about eighty miles wide. In the area of ??Lake Baikal is Belgium, with its nearly ten million people, many cities and industrial centers, highways and railways.
Into Baikal for more than three hundred permanent rivers and streams, with half the volume of water flowing into the lake, bringing the Selenga. This follows from the lake is the only river - the Angara.
The area of ??water covering the lake is not less than thirty-one thousand square kilometers. The depth of up to one thousand six hundred thirty-seven meters.
Sure, Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world. Not everyone knows that the world's second contender for the title, the African Tanganika Lake, behind the leader as much as two hundred meters. Lake Baikal over thirty islands.
About the age of the lake is still being debated. The use of different methods of age determination gives a value of twenty millions to tens of thousands of years. But, if we assume that the conventional view is correct, then we can assume Baikal and the oldest lake on Earth.
