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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
Lake Kariba is the world's largest artificial lake and reservoir by volume. 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 .
This category is for articles pertaining to lakes and reservoirs in Zambia. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. ...
Lake Bangweulu ('where the water sky meets the sky' [2]) is a freshwater lake in northern Zambia. Bangweulu is one of the world's great wetland systems , comprising Lake Bangweulu , the Bangweulu Wetlands and the Bangweulu flats or floodplain . [ 3 ]
Lake Kashiba is best known for the several small, deep pools in the Ndola district called "The Sunken Lakes." They are found in limestone and were caused by the action of water on the rock, dissolving it and forming caves which eventually collapsed, leaving deep holes filled with water. Kashiba is the most impressive and means "small lake."
Lake Mweru Wantipa or Mweru-wa-Ntipa meaning "muddy lake" (also called 'Mweru Marsh') is a lake and swamp system in the Northern Province of Zambia.It has been regarded in the past as something of mystery, displaying fluctuations in water level and salinity which were not entirely explained by variation in rainfall levels; it has been known to dry out almost completely. [2]
The biomes and ecoregions in the ecology of Zambia are described, listed and mapped here, following the World Wildlife Fund's classification scheme for terrestrial ecoregions, and the WWF freshwater ecoregion classification for rivers, lakes and wetlands. Zambia is in the Zambezian region of the Afrotropical biogeographic realm (or ecozone ...
The lake is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, and the hydroelectric power-generating facilities at the dam provide electricity to much of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Luangwa and Kafue rivers are the two largest left-hand tributaries of the Zambezi.