Lake Amano

Located around 20 degrees of latitude, Lake Amano is a hotspot of biological diversity. It is Isla’s second largest lake, and became separated from the ocean hundreds of thousands of years prior to the present day. Many aquatic organisms have been isolate within the lake for so long that they have diversified into clades unique to this single body of water. Terrestrial organisms rely on the lake as well, with many using it as a site for reproduction, hunting, or a place to wash themselves after wandering the wastes. The shores of Lake Amano are surrounded by the great eodronta forest, a sylvan environment which itself houses great biodiversity. These two biomes, in combination with the floodplains that separate them, are some of the most biologically productive places on the entirety of the planet Isla.