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It lies 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) upstream from the mouth of the Zambezi river on the Indian Ocean, along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Lake Kariba was filled between 1958 and 1963 following the completion of the Kariba Dam at its northeastern end, flooding the Kariba Gorge on the Zambezi River.
The middle Zambezi ends where the river enters Lake Cahora Bassa, formerly the site of dangerous rapids known as Kebrabassa; the lake was created in 1974 by the construction of the Cahora Bassa Dam. [ 20 ] [ citation needed ]
The dam was constructed on the orders of the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a 'federal colony' within the British Empire.The double curvature concrete arch dam was designed by Coyne et Bellier and constructed between 1955 and 1959 by Impresit of Italy [2] at a cost of $135,000,000 for the first stage with only the Kariba South power cavern.
This is a list of lakes in Zambia. Lake Bangweulu; Lake Kariba; Lake Kashiba; Lake Ishiba Ng'andu; Mofwe Lagoon; Lake Mweru; Lake Mweru Wantipa; Lake Tanganyika; Lake Ngwenya; Lake Blue Water; Rift Valley lakes; Lakes portal
Zambezi is a town in the North-Western Province of Zambia, lying on the Zambezi River, west of Kabompo. It is at the western end of the M8 road . It is known for the palaces of the chiefs of the Lunda and Lovale people.
As of 2004, the province had 648 basic schools, 26 high schools and the number of school children out of school in ages between 7 and 15 stood at 36,984. [20] The unemployment rate was 10 per cent and the general unemployment rate for youth stood at 18 per cent as of 2008.
Mongu on the Zambezi; Livingstone on the Zambezi; Siavonga and Sinazongwe on Lake Kariba; Lower Zambezi National Park on the Zambezi; In addition to these there are a number of tour companies and camps set up for fishing and adventure tours, especially on the upper Zambezi, mostly catering for international tourists at high prices.
They have settled in this region for many years and are the major tribe living on the shore of Lake Kariba. The Tonga people of Zambia and Zimbabwe (also called 'Batonga') are a Bantu ethnic group of southern Zambia and neighbouring northern Zimbabwe, and to a lesser extent, of Mozambique. They are related to the Batoka who are part of the ...