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List Of Rivers Of Botswana
This is a list of rivers in Botswana. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Atlantic Ocean *Orange River **Molopo River ***Nossob River *** Moselebe River Indian Ocean *Zambezi River **Cuando River (Chobe River) (Linyanti River) *** Makwegana River (Selinda Spillway) (receives outflow from the Okavango during floods) *Limpopo River **Shashe River *** Ramokgwebana River ***Tati River ** Motloutse River **Lotsane River ** Serorome River **Notwane River *** Metsimotlhabe River **Marico River Okavango Delta *Okavango River ** Ngamaseri River * Khwai River *Eiseb River * Xaudum River Makgadikgadi Pan * Boteti River (flows out of the Okavango Delta in rainy seasons) ** Thamalakane River * Nata River ** Tutume River *Semowane River * Mosetse River * Lepashe River *Mosope River Kalahari Desert *Okwa River ReferencesUnited Nations 2004 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okavango River Basin Map
Okavango may refer to: Geographical features * Okavango River, a river in southwest Africa, which drains into the Okavango Delta * Okavango Delta, a delta in Botswana * Okavango Basin, an endorheic basin that includes the Okavango River and Okavango Delta. Administrative units * Kavango Region, a region of Namibia, named ''Okavango'' until 1998 Others * Geely Okavango, a sport utility vehicle A sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a car classification that combines elements of road-going passenger cars with features from off-road vehicles, such as raised ground clearance and four-wheel drive. There is no commonly agreed-upon defini ... model See also * Kavango (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notwane River
The Notwane River (or Ngotwane River) is a river in southeastern Botswana. Certain sections of its course form the international boundary with South Africa. Its mouth is at the head of the Limpopo River. It has a catchment area of 18,053 square kilometers. Course The Notwane rises about south of Ramotswa, and runs along the border in a northeast direction to enter the Limpopo at the same longitude as Mahalapye. The Notwane has its source in the sandveld, at the eastern fringes of the Kalahari Desert. It flows roughly northeastwards past the most densely populated area of Botswana, passing east of Lobatse, between the city of Gaborone and Tlokweng village and then through Mochudi village. Finally it joins the left bank of the Limpopo River at the border with South Africa, just 6 km short of the confluence of the Limpopo with the Matlabas River. The Notwane basin is drained by the Notwane itself and its tributaries the Taung, Segoditshane, Metsimotlhabe, Metsemaswaane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tutume River
Tutume is a large Bakalanga village located in the Central District of Botswana, about 50 km from the Zimbabwe border gate at Maitengwe Maitengwe is a large village located in the Central District of Botswana. It had 5,890 inhabitants at the 2011 census. It is one of many developing villages in the country and best known for its festive celebrations . See also * List of cities .... The nearest city is Francistown, about 100 km away. The village is a sub district headquarters and has a population of 23,000 .It is made up of wards: Sitabule(Madikwe),Tjilagwani(Selolwane), Thini and Madandume (Magapatona). In each ward there is a headman and his advisers in the kgotla. The main kgotla is located in Madikwe ward near Tutume Central Primary School. The village was named after the river "TUTUME", in Kalanga they will say "gwizi go Tutuma", meaning that the river was overflowing. There are seven primary schools; Magapatona, Timbi, Thini, Selolwane, Maphorisa and Tutume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nata River
The Nata River or Manzamnyama River is a natural watercourse in Southern Africa. It is an ephemeral river flowing in Zimbabwe and Botswana. It has a length of 330 km from its source to mouth, 210 km in Zimbabwe and 120 km in Botswana. Its total catchment area is 24,585 km2. The river originates in Sandown (S20.425036˚, E28.180660˚), a small farming town located on the Zimbabwean central watershed 50 km south west of Bulawayo and ends in the Makgadikgadi Pans (S20.348816˚, E26.240166˚) in Botswana. There is no outlet from the salt pans which can be considered as the “dead sea” of the south. The upper reaches of the river are located in a commercial farming area where good environmental and farming practices have resulted in the river experiencing very little siltation/sedimentation. Impressive sedimentation starts occurring about 65 km along the river course marking the beginning of a 90 km stretch in Zimbabwe where the river passes throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thamalakane River
The Thamalakane River is a river located in Botswana, Africa, at the southern end of the Okavango Delta. It has no well defined beginning ( spring) and no clear end ( delta). It is the result of the Thamalakane fault - which began to form about two million years ago by the geological process of rifting that is currently splitting Africa apart along the East African Rift. When the land between two parallel faults (the Gumare fault and the Kunyere fault) started dropping, the Okavango River's flow was blocked by the Thamalakane fault and it started to fan out and built myriads of water channels - what is now known as the Okavango Delta. One of the main channels draining the Okavango Delta is the Boro River. Being blocked by the fault, it empties literally at a right angle into the waterway created by the fault, the Thamalakane River. Roughly 40 km to the west, the water found a break in the Thamalakane Fault. Again at a right angle it empties the Thamalakane River and fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boteti River
The Boteti River (also Botletle RiverHelgren, David M. (1984) "Historical Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology in the Southwestern Makgadikgadi Basin, Botswana" ''Annals of the Association of American Geographers'' 74(2): pp. 298–307, page 298Johannesburg Sheet 34, Edition 5, TPC, 1970 Series 2201, U.S. Army Map Service or Botletli) is a natural in . It derives flow from the core ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makgadikgadi Pan
The Makgadikgadi Pan ( Tswana pronunciation ), a salt pan situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana, is one of the largest salt flats in the world. The pan is all that remains of the formerly enormous Lake Makgadikgadi, which once covered an area larger than Switzerland, but dried up tens of thousands of years ago. Recent studies of human mitochondrial DNA suggest that modern ''Homo sapiens'' first began to evolve in this region some 200,000 years ago, when it was a vast, exceptionally fertile area of lakes, rivers, marshes, woodlands and grasslands especially favorable for habitation by evolving hominins and other mammals. Location and description Lying southeast of the Okavango Delta and surrounded by the Kalahari Desert, Makgadikgadi is technically not a single pan, but many pans with sandy desert in between, the largest being the Sua (Sowa), Ntwetwe and Nxai Pans. The largest individual pan is about . In comparison, Salar de Uyuni in Boli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiseb River
Eiseb, also Eiseb Block, is a settlement in the Omaheke Region of Namibia. It is named after the Eiseb River, an ephemeral river (''omuramba'') in the Kalahari desert. Eiseb is situated on the District road D1635 northeast of Talismanus and belongs to the Otjombinde electoral constituency. The settlement has been established in 1992 as a place where returning Ovambanderu and Ovaherero refugees from Botswana could settle. From 1994 onwards, Ovambanderu and Ovaherero from other reserved areas, such as Epukiro, Otjinene and Otjombinde moved in and make up the majority of the inhabitants , making a living from subsistence farming. Eiseb-Epukiro River Basin The area between Eiseb and Epukiro is one of eleven water basins in Namibia. It has a total surface area of and borders Botswana in the east, reaches southwards until Gobabis, and covers parts of the Omaheke and Otjozondjupa Regions. The total annual water yield of the basin is , mainly ground water Groundwater is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khwai River
The Khwai River is a river in Northern Botswana. It extends from the Okavango River and forms part of the Northern border of the Moremi Game Reserve. Not far from the river, on the North Gate of Moremi, is the BaBugkakhwe village of Khwai. The area is served by the Khwai River Airport Khwai River Airport is an airport serving the lodges and camps around the village of Khwai in Botswana. The runway is from the Moremi Game Reserve north gate, and from one of the Khwai River hippo ponds. The game reserve is on the easter .... References Rivers of Botswana {{Botswana-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okavango River
The Okavango River (formerly spelled Okovango or Okovanggo), Also known as the Cubango River, is a river in southwest Africa. It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for . It begins at an elevation of in the sandy highlands of Angola. Farther south, it forms part of the border between Angola and Namibia, and then flows into Botswana. The Okavango does not have an outlet to the sea. Instead, it discharges into the Okavango Delta or Okavango Alluvial Fan, in an endorheic basin in the Kalahari Desert. Flow In Angola, the upper reaches of the Cuito (a tributary river to the Okavango) suffers clogging due to controlled burns of the vegetation, reducing water flow downstream as the accumulated water instead flows into the sand. Before it enters Botswana, the river drops 4 m in a series of rapids known as Popa Falls, visible when the river is low, as during the dry season. In the rainy season, an outflow to the Boteti River in turn seasona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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