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Etosha Pan during wet season, Etosha Lookout/Halali. The Etosha Pan is a large endorheic salt pan, forming part of the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin in the north of Namibia.It is a vast hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated.
It spans an area of 22,270 km 2 (8,600 sq mi) and was named after the large Etosha pan which is almost entirely within the park. With an area of 4,760 km 2 (1,840 sq mi), the Etosha pan covers 23% of the total area of the national park. [3]
It is situated about 70 kilometres (43 mi) from Etosha Pan and is the largest lake in the Cuvelai Basin. It holds water up to the following rainy season in a prosperous year. Because the lake maintains water for a long time a number of birds like flamingos and others temporarily move there, when the oshanas (flood plains), swamps, and other ...
The Kunene River with its Tributaries, the Etosha Pan and the Oshana system with the Ekuma (center down) The Ekuma River is one of three rivers that supply most of water to the pan in the Etosha National Park in Namibia, the other two being the Oshigambo River and the Omurambo Ovambo River.
The Owambo Basin is a sedimentary basin located on the Congo Craton in Southern Africa that extends from southern Angola into Namibia and includes the Etosha Pan.It is bound on the southern and western sides by the Damara Belt in Northern Namibia, and by the Cubango River to the East. [1]
Cuvelai River-Etosha Basin: Endorheic basin: Africa: n/a (endorheic basin) 166,649 64,344 ... Colorado River (Texas) Primary river: North America: Gulf of Mexico: 103,300
Namutoni is a restcamp on the eastern edge of the Etosha pan in the Oshikoto Region in northern Namibia. The adjoining Von Lindequist Gate about 10km east is one of the entrance gates to the Etosha National Park. Shelter for wildlife observation at Namutoni. The most prominent structure at Namutoni is Fort Namutoni, built in 1896.
Part of the reserve remains protected as Etosha National Park and this includes a large area of mopane woodland but the widespread poaching and uncontrolled hunting which began with the dismantling of the reserve and the Namibian War of Independence still continues in Etosha and other private reserves in Namibia.