Pink Lake (20 photos)

Pink Lake or Lake Retba geographically located near the Atlantic coast near Dakar, Senegal.
Retba - a small lake, which occupies an area of ​​3 square meters. km. Body of water is very salty, the salt concentration of about 380 g per liter.
In such a saltwater live only a few species of bacteria. Bacteria secrete a pigment from which the color of water in the lake gets Retba pink hue, which gave the name of Rose Lake.