Seawater trapped in Kakaban
Kakaban have an area 774.2 hectares and is located in Derawan Islands, District Derawan, Berau, East Kalimantan. Kakaban attract foreign tourists with some of its uniqueness, one of the lakes on the island of Lake Kakaban. Which, on the lake is filled by a mixture of rainwater and seepage of sea water from the pores of the soil and create a habitat for different endemic in most other regions of the world's lakes, besides Lake Kakaban there is another lake with brackish water that is in the Palau Islands, Micronesia.
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Lake Kakaban is sea water trapped in Kakaban, coupled with water from the soil and rain water. Lake Kakaban a prehistoric lake that is the time of transition Holosin. The extent of about 5 km ², walled cliffs as high as 50 meters, resulting in sea water is trapped no longer get out, into the lake. Administratively, Lake Kakaban including Berau Regency, East Kalimantan. In the world, a place like this is only found in Palau, Micronesian Islands in the South East Pacific Ocean. Thus Kakaban is the only island in Indonesia that have a lake in the middle.
Kakaban, one of the Islands Derawan nominated as a World Heritage Area. For those of you who loved nautical tourism, which has a vast region has a population of 774.2 hectares and the diversity of jellyfish that most in the world, four unique species of jellyfish that are not surrounded by high cliffs menyengat.Pulau this, beyond the cliffs west outspread 50-meter wide lowlands are composed of rock. From the plains of coral that you can be docked, of course, bathing suit and snorkeling equipment to swim toward land.
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