Okavango River
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The Okavango River is a river in southwestern Africa. It is known by this name in Botswana, as Cubango in Angola, and Kavango in Namibia. It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, runn
Okavango in Kavango, Namibia
Kavango river view at Hakusembe river lodge
Popa Falls (2018)
Confluence of Cuito (from top) and Okavango (flowing from left to right) (2018) 18°01′40″S 020°47′31″E / 18.02778°S 20.79194°E / -18.02778; 20.79194
Endorheic basin
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An endorheic basin is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water. Instead, the water drainage flows into permanent and seasonal lakes and swam
Okavango River
…flows into Botswana. The Okavango does not have an outlet to the sea. Instead, it discharges into the Okavango Delta or Okavango Alluvial Fan, in an endorheic basin in the Kalahari Desert. The Cuito River is a major tributary. The name Okavango is derived from the Kavango, which refers to the Kavango people of…
The endorheic basin that feeds water into Üüreg Lake, Mongolia
NASA photo of the endorheic Tarim Basin, China
The Okavango Delta (centre) of southern Africa, where the Okavango River spills out into the empty trough of the Kalahari Desert. The area was a lake fed by the river during the Ice Ages (national borders are superimposed).
The Caspian Sea, a large inland basin