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This is a list of significant droughts, ... 2008–2009 Kenya drought; 2011 East Africa drought; ... 2012 Sahel drought; Eastern Cape drought; 2017 Somali drought;
The Eastern Cape region of South Africa experienced a severe multi-year drought from 2015 through early 2020. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The drought was one of the worst in the region's history and led the South African government to declare the region a "disaster area" in October 2019.
East Africa, Kenya and Uganda: 1900–1903: Famine in Cape Verde: Cape Verde: 11,000 – 20,000 [90] 1901 Northern Chinese Famine in Spring 1901, caused by drought from 1898-1901. The famine was one of the causes of the anti-imperialist Boxer rebellion. [110] China (Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces) and Inner Mongolia: 200,000 in Shaanxi province ...
Astronaut photo of Cape Town showing the Cape Peninsula, and surrounding waters, including False Bay. Map showing approximate extent of the range of the article and identifying key locations and the borders of the Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area Marine ecoregions of the South African exclusive economic zone Marine species distribution reference map of the Southern African ...
How many canals does Cape Coral have? Cape Coral has about 409 miles of canals: 222 miles of saltwater, 156 miles of freshwater, and 31 miles of shoreline. How often are canals maintained?
False Bay, Lake St Lucia This is a list of estuaries in South Africa. The list is in order from East (border with Mozambique) to the West (border with Namibia). The South African coastline stretches for some 3000 km from Kosi Bay near the Mozambique border in the east to the Gariep (Orange) River at the Namibian border in the west. Some 300 river outlets intersect this coastline and these ...
Global distribution of the 4.2 kiloyear event. The hatched areas were affected by wet conditions or flooding, and the dotted areas by drought or dust storms. [1] The 4.2-kiloyear (thousand years) BP aridification event (long-term drought), also known as the 4.2 ka event, [2] was one of the most severe climatic events of the Holocene epoch. [3]
Megadroughts have historically led to the mass migration of humans away from drought affected lands, resulting in a significant population decline from pre-drought levels. . They are suspected of playing a primary role in the collapse of several pre-industrial civilizations, including the Ancestral Puebloans of the North American Southwest, [6] the Khmer Empire of Cambodia, [7] the Maya of ...