Okavango
The Okavango , Okawango , Cubango or Kubango is the third River of Southern Africa by its length (between: 1600 and: 1800 kilometers). It takes its source close to the town of Nova Lisboa in central Angola, before crossing the Namibia to reach the Botswana. Water of Okavango has the characteristic never not to join the ocean, the course of the river is completed by vast the Delta of Okavango in the Kalahari Desert .
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Following a geological undulation, it is lost in Kalahari Desert dryness instead of leading in the Indian Ocean (Endoréisme). So it is called the river which never finds the sea .
Very close to narrow the Band of Caprivi (Namibia), the Tail of stove (panhandle) which separates the Botswana and the Angola, the Okavango river curves among the green easily flooded meadows. Between two fractures of the Earth's crust, this corridor led to a depression where the river is spread out then in a vast delta.
See also: Delta of Okavango
Its water (approximately fifteen billion annual cubic meters) is lost in gigantic a delta of: 15000 km ², forming a labyrinth of islands, channels and lagoons. However, the years of strong flow, a small portion of water joined the Zambezi via one of her affluents, the Magwekwana.
This space is partly the natural reserve of Moremi Game Reserve. It is of very first importance for many species of birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, Amphibians and plants.
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Related articles
- List of rivers in the world
- List of the more water long courses
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