The Lepashe River is a natural watercourse in
Botswana
Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalaha ...
. It shares its name with the village of
Lepashe, through which the river flows. The Lepashe River discharges to the
Sua Pan
The Sua Pan or Sowa Pan is a large natural topographic depression within the Makgadikgadi region of Botswana. It is located near the village of ''Sowa'', whose name means salt in the language of the San. The Sua salt pan is one of three large p ...
. There are significant gravel resources along some reaches of the Lepashe River.
[Botswana Geological Survey]
See also
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Makgadikgadi Pans
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 Makgadikg ...
References
* Botswana Geological Survey Dept, District Memoir no. 1, published by Federation of Malaya
* C. Michael Hogan (2008) ''Makgadikgadi'', The Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnha
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Rivers of Botswana
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