Kalahari Desert
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The Kalahari Desert is a large semiarid sandy savanna in Southern Africa covering 900,000 km2, including much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
Kalahari in Namibia
Bird's eye view of the Kalahari in Namibia: the dark dots are camel thorns
Kalahari claypan near Onderombapa
Heavy thunderstorm near Stampriet
Desert
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A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground
Kalahari Desert
…hedged gourd, is endemic to a region in the Kalahari Desert (specific region unknown). Even where the Kalahari "desert" is dry enough to qualify as a desert in the sense of having low precipitation, it is not strictly speaking a desert because it has too dense a ground cover. The main region that lacks…
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