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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]
This is the second largest pan in the park after the Etosha pan. Pan Point Okaukuejo: English: A bore-hole at the southernmost point of a cone-shaped pan. Panpoint Pan Okaukuejo: English: A pan named after Pan Point, which incidentally got its name from the pan. Brakwater Okaukuejo: Afrikaans: From a bore-hole that existed here that produced ...
The Etosha pan, in the Etosha National Park in Namibia, is another prominent example of a salt pan. The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the largest salt pan in the world. As of 2024, with an estimated 23 million tons , Bolivia holds about 22% of the world's known lithium resources (105 million tons); most of those are in the Salar de Uyuni. [ 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 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 .
Etosha Pan; F. Fairy Tale Forest (Etosha) L. List of Etosha National Park placename etymologies; N. Namutoni; O. Okaukuejo This page was last edited on 5 January 2020 ...
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]