Rivers of Zambia

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Kafue River, Kalambo River, Luapula River, Lusemfwa River, Zambezi River, Kariba Dam, Victoria Falls, Lake Bangweulu, Barotse Floodplain, Water transport in Zambia, Cahora Bassa, Mongu, Lukanga Swamp, Luangwa River, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Lake Kariba, Kazembe, Caia, Mozambique, 2007 Mozambican flood, Kafue National Park, Kazungula Ferry, Barotseland, Mana Pools, Kariba Gorge, Kalambo Falls, Mofwe Lagoon, Victoria Falls National Park, Chambeshi River, Lunsemfwa River, Kanyembo, Lungwebungu River, Ngonye Falls, Kabompo River, Luena River, Zambia, Chembe, Chirundu, Zimbabwe, Impalila, List of rivers of Zambia, Chirundu, Zambia, Lealui, Kalungwishi River, Mulungushi River, Mbereshi River, Chavuma Falls, Mita Hills Dam, Luanginga River, Mpalila Island, Lunga River, Lukasashi River, ReVive River. Excerpt: The Zambezi (also spelled Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. The area of its basin is 1,390,000 square kilometres (540,000 sq mi), slightly less than half that of the Nile. The 3,540-kilometre-long river (2,200 mi) has its source in Zambia and flows through Angola, along the borders of Namibia, Botswana, Zambia again, and Zimbabwe, to Mozambique, where it empties into the Indian Ocean. The Zambezi's most spectacular feature is the beautiful Victoria Falls. Other notable falls include the Chavuma Falls at the border between Zambia and Angola, and Ngonye Falls, near Sioma in Western Zambia. There are two main sources of hydroelectric power on the river. These are the Kariba Dam, which provides power to Zambia and Zimbabwe and the Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique which provides power to both Mozambique and South Africa. There is also a smaller power station at Victoria Falls. The river rises in a black marshy dambo in north-western Zambia, in undulating miombo woodland, quite dense in parts, about 1,524 m (4,900 ft) above sea level. Eastward of the source, the watershed between the Congo and Zambezi basins is a well-marked belt of high ground, falling abruptly north and south, and running nearly east-west. This distinctly cuts off the basin of the Lualaba (the main branch of the upper Congo) from that of the Zambezi. In the neighborhood of the source the watershed is not as clearly defined, but the two river systems do not connect. The region drained by the Zambezi is a vast broken-edged plateau 900¿1200 m high, composed in the remote interior of metamorphic beds and fringed with the igneous rocks of the Victoria Falls. At Shupanga, on the lower Zambezi, thin strata of grey and yellow sandstones, with an occasional band of limestone, crop out on the bed of the river in the dry season, and these persist beyond Tete, where they are associated with extensive seams of coal. Coal is also found in the dist