[1] The lake covers an area of 250 hectares (620 acres), and is set between hills with fairly steep slopes.

[2] Typha domingensis forms a very narrow belt around this pond, separating the crops and the water.

[8] In 2001 there was an attempt to create a buffer zone between the lake and the cultivated land, but it was not respected.

[7] Lake Gacamirindi is now in the western part of the Paysage aquatique protégé du Nord (Protected Aquatic Landscape of the North), created in 2011.

A buffer zone, or belt of land at least 50 metres (160 ft) wide, will be established around the lake.