{"id":93490,"date":"2026-03-18T18:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=93490"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:36:20","slug":"didwana-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/didwana-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Didwana Lake, Location, Characteristics, Biodiversity, Significance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Didwana Lake is a major saline Playa Lake in Rajasthan. It is located near Didwana town in the eastern Thar Desert at 336 m elevation. It forms a key arid land geomorphic feature. The lake supports salt extraction and preserves geological and prehistoric records spanning from the Middle Pleistocene to recent phases.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Didwana Lake Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Didwana Lake is a hypersaline playa with economic and geological importance, showing unique desert ecology, mineral composition and long human and environment interaction history.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Location: Situated in Didwana-Kuchaman district, eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-thar-desert\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Thar Desert<\/strong><\/a>, near highways and salt fields.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Size: Extends about 5.6 km length and 2.4 km width, making it the second largest Playa Lake in eastern Thar with significant spatial salt deposition area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Composition: Contains 20 m thick sediments of clay, silt, calcite, gypsum and halite, formed under hypersaline conditions through intense evaporation processes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Characteristics: Endorheic basin with over 30% salinity; seasonal water fills during <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/monsoon-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>monsoon<\/strong><\/a> and dries into salt flats under extreme desert temperatures.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biodiversity: Supports halophilic microorganisms, zooplankton and xerophytes; fauna limited due to no forests, but adapted desert life survives near saline margins.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Economic Significance: Major salt production center contributing to regional output; historically linked to trade, with modern extraction supporting local economy and employment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geological Significance: Shows uranium presence up to 190 ppm in groundwater and 2072 ppb in brine, indicating mineral rich semi arid depositional environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didwana Lake is a saline playa lake in Rajasthan, known for its hypersaline conditions, salt production, unique desert ecology, and geological records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":93517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[786],"tags":[4935,5102],"class_list":{"0":"post-93490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-studies","8":"tag-geography","9":"tag-geography-notes","10":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93547,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93490\/revisions\/93547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}