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- Okavango_Basin abstract "The Okavango Basin is an endorheic basin in southwestern Africa, which extends across portions of Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The basin covers an area of 721,000 square kilometers.The Okavango River is the chief stream in the basin. It is formed by the confluence of the Cubango and Cuito rivers, which originate on the Bihé Plateau of central Angola and flow southeast. The Cubango is joined just above its confluence with the Cuito by the Omatako River, which flows northeast from its origin in the Damaraland region of central Namibia. The Okavango continues through the Caprivi Strip of Namibia into Botswana, where it splits into a number of distributaries to form the Okavango Delta, a large inland delta that becomes a seasonally flooded grassland.A series of salt pans lie in the lowest points of the basin, including the Nwako Pan south of the Okavango Delta and the vast Makgadikgadi Pan southeast of the Delta. At times of high flow, the Okavango spills into the Nwako Pan via the Xudum and Nhabe distributaries to replenish Lake Ngami, a saline lake, and into Lake Xau and the western end of the Makgadikgadi Pan via the Boteti distributary. The Mopopi Dam was built on the Boteti to provide water to the Orapa diamond mine.The Selinda Spillway, also known as the Magweqana, Magwekwana or Magweggana, is a distributary channel that connects the Okavango Delta to the Cuando River, a tributary of the Zambezi. In periods of very high water in the Okavango, the water flows eastward towards the Cuando-Linyanti-System. The last time this happened was in August 2009 after 30 years of falling dry. In times of high water in the Kwando, the water can flow west from the Cuando towards the Okavango Delta, but often evaporates before it reaches the delta.Other streams in the basin include the Eiseb, an intermittent stream that originates in Namibia's Herreroland and flows east into the Okavango Delta, and the Nata River, which originates in western Zimbabwe to flow into the eastern end of the Makgadikgadi Pan.".
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- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Angola.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Bihé_Plateau.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Bié_Plateau.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Boteti.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Boteti_River.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Botswana.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Caprivi_Strip.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Endorheic_basins.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Freshwater_ecoregions.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Cuando_River.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Cubango_River.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Cuito_River.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Damaraland.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Distributary.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Endorheic_basin.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Flooded_grassland.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Flooded_grasslands_and_savannas.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Hereroland.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Herreroland.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Ngami.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Xau.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Makgadikgadi_Pan.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Namibia.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Nata_River.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Nwako_Pan.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Okavango_Delta.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Okavango_River.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Omatako_River.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Orapa_diamond_mine.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Selinda_Spillway.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Zambezi.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Zambezi_River.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Zimbabwe.
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLinkText "Okavango Basin".
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLinkText "Okavango floodplains".
- Okavango_Basin wikiPageWikiLinkText "Okavango".
- Okavango_Basin hasPhotoCollection Okavango_Basin.
- Okavango_Basin subject Category:Endorheic_basins.
- Okavango_Basin subject Category:Freshwater_ecoregions.
- Okavango_Basin hypernym Basin.
- Okavango_Basin type NaturalPlace.
- Okavango_Basin type Landform.
- Okavango_Basin comment "The Okavango Basin is an endorheic basin in southwestern Africa, which extends across portions of Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The basin covers an area of 721,000 square kilometers.The Okavango River is the chief stream in the basin. It is formed by the confluence of the Cubango and Cuito rivers, which originate on the Bihé Plateau of central Angola and flow southeast.".
- Okavango_Basin label "Okavango Basin".
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- Okavango_Basin wasDerivedFrom Okavango_Basin?oldid=606181877.
- Okavango_Basin isPrimaryTopicOf Okavango_Basin.