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The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for ... The altitude has been adduced as the explanation why the Kalaharian ...
The Kalahari Desert is in the central and the southwest. ... the relatively high altitude of the country and its continental situation gives it a subtropical climate ...
Lying southeast of the Okavango Delta and surrounded by the Kalahari Desert, Makgadikgadi is technically not a single pan, but many pans with sandy desert in between, the largest being the Sua (Sowa), Ntwetwe and Nxai Pans. The largest individual pan is about 1,900 sq mi (4,921.0 km 2).
The Okavango Delta [2] (or Okavango Grassland; formerly spelled "Okovango" or "Okovanggo") in Botswana is a vast inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an altitude of 930–1,000 m [3] in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari Desert.
Central Kalahari Game Reserve is an extensive national park in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana.Established in 1961 it covers an area of 52,800 square kilometres (20,400 sq mi) (larger than the Netherlands, and almost 10% of Botswana's total land area), making it the second largest game reserve in the world. [1]
Terrain: Mostly high plateau; Namib Desert along the coast; Kalahari Desert in the east. In the north near the border with Angola there is a flat area that has been designated by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Angolan mopane woodlands ecoregion. Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m mean elevation: 1,414 m
Hakskeenpan or Hakskeen Pan [1] is a mud and salt pan in the Kalahari Desert, in Southern Africa. It is located in the Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality region in the Northern Cape, South Africa, at 801 metres (2,628 ft) above sea level. [2] The pan covers an area of approximately 140 square kilometres (54 sq mi) [3]
The Kalahari Basin, also known as the Kalahari Depression, Okavango Basin or the Makgadikgadi Basin, [1] is an endorheic basin and large lowland area covering approximately 725,293 km 2 (280,037 sq mi) — mostly within Botswana and Namibia, but also parts of Angola, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.