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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]
The Cuvelai-Etosha Basin is a transboundary wetland area shared by Angola and Namibia extending over 450 kilometres from north to south. Covering almost 160,000 km 2 , the widest point of the basin is along the Angola-Namibia border from the Kunene River east to the Okavango 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]
Eiseb River ∘ Ekuma River ∘ Etosha River ∘ Epukiro River. Fish River. Guruchab. Hoanib River ∘ Hoarisib River ∘ Huab River ∘ Hunkab River. Kaukausib River ∘ Khan River ∘ Khaudom River ∘ Khumib River ∘ Koigab River ∘ Koichab River ∘ Konkiep River ∘ Kuiseb River ∘ Kunene River ∘ Kwando River. Messum River ∘ Mpungu ...
Located adjacent to the Bushveld in north-central Namibia is one of nature's most spectacular features: the Etosha Pan. For most of the year, it is a dry, saline wasteland, but during the wet season, it forms a shallow lake covering more than 6,000 square kilometres (2,317 sq mi).
Large areas of the Namibian geology exposed onshore are associated with the Late Proterozoic Pan-African orogenic cycle. [1] The geology of Namibia is dominated in the north by metasediments of the Neoproterozoic Damara Belt (or Namibian System), while in the south large areas are underlain by the unmetamorphosed, relatively undisturbed ...
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.