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The Sudd stretches from Mongalla to just outside the Sobat River confluence with the White Nile just upstream of Malakal as well as westwards along the Bahr el Ghazal.The shallow and flat inland delta lies between 5.5 and 9.5 degrees latitude north and covers an area of 500 kilometres (310 mi) south to north and 200 kilometres (120 mi) east to west between Mongalla in the south and Malakal in ...
Swamps can be found on all continents except Antarctica. [18] The largest swamp in the world is the Amazon River floodplain, which is particularly significant for its large number of fish and tree species. [19] [20] [21]
Pages in category "Swamps of Africa" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. K. Kafue Flats; L.
There are important mangrove swamps in Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Madagascar, with swamps in the latter even admixing at the coastal verge with dry deciduous forests. Nigeria has Africa's largest mangrove coverage, spanning 36,000 km 2 (14,000 sq mi). Oil spills and leaks have destroyed much of this in the ...
The Yala Swamp at the mouth of the Yala River covers about 175 square kilometres (68 sq mi) along the northern shore of Lake Victoria. [1] The swamp contains 1,500 hectares (3,700 acres) Lake Kanyaboli, a freshwater deltaic wetland with an average depth of 3 metres (9.8 ft), which is fed by the floodwaters of the Nzoia and Yala rivers and by the backflow of water from Lake Victoria.
The Bangweulu Swamps, larger than the lake, extend from the north-west clockwise around to the south. The main part covers an area of roughly 120 km by 75 km and they are normally not less than 9,000 km 2. [5] [6] The swamps act as a check on annual flooding downstream in the Luapula by releasing water slowly through many lagoons and channels.
Contracting parties are grouped into six "regions": Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin American and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania. [2] As of February 2025 [update] , 171 states have acceded to the convention and designated 2,531 sites to the list, covering 257,909,286 hectares (637,307,730 acres); one other state has acceded to the ...
After Mongalla, the Bahr Al Jabal enters the enormous swamps of the Sudd region. More than half of the Nile's water is lost in this swamp to evaporation and transpiration. The average flow rate of the White Nile at the tails of the swamps is about 510 m 3 /s (18,000 cu ft/s). From here it meets with the Sobat River at Malakal. On an annual ...