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The Okavango River (formerly spelt Okovango or Okovanggo), is a river in southwest Africa. It is known by this name in Botswana, and as Cubango in Angola, and Kavango in Namibia. [ 1 ] It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for 1,600 km (1,000 mi).
Satellite image of Okavango Delta, with national borders added Typical region in the Okavango Delta, with free canals and lakes, swamps and islandsThe Okavango Delta [2] (or Okavango Grassland; formerly spelled "Okovango" or "Okovanggo") in Botswana is a vast inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an altitude of 930–1,000 m [3] in the central part of the ...
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. Okavango, an electoral constituency for the National Assembly of Botswana from 1965 to 2024.
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. After the Okavango Delta, the waters of the basin enter a zone of strong evaporation, already within the Kalahari Desert ...
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 1,900 sq mi (4,921.0 km 2).
Livelihoods, wildlife depending on the river at risk amid growing impacts of climate change
Kavango (before 1998: Okavango) [3] was one of the thirteen regions of Namibia until it was split into the Kavango East and Kavango West Regions in 2013. Its capital was Rundu . In the north, Kavango bordered the Cuando Cubango Province of Angola , and in the southeast the North-West District of Botswana.
It was introduced to the Chinese market in 2020 and is known as the Geely Okavango in overseas markets. [7] The Haoyue name means 'heroic', [ 8 ] while Okavango is named after the Okavango Delta in Botswana.