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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.
The only permanent river, the Okavango, ... The city of Windhoek is situated in the Kalahari Basin. [citation needed] Kalahari, San and diamonds
The Okavango River (formerly spelt Okovango or Okovanggo), is a river in southwest Africa. It is known by this name in Botswana, and as Cubango in Angola, and Kavango in Namibia. [ 1 ] It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for 1,600 km (1,000 mi).
A smaller amount of water is supplied by the Boteti River from the Okavango Delta. [2] These salt pans cover 6,200 sq mi (16,057.9 km 2) in the Kalahari Basin and form the bed of the ancient Lake Makgadikgadi, which evaporated many millennia ago.
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 metres (3,050–3,280 ft) [3] in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari Desert.
Orupembe Basin: Kunene Region [4] Huab Basin [4] Etosha, Rundu or Owambo Basin: Kavango Region Otjozondjupa Region Omaheke Region [4] [5] Waterberg Basin: Otjozondjupa Region [4] [5] Kalahari or Nama Basin: Omaheke Region Hardap Region ǁKaras Region [4] [5] Karasberg or Warmbad Basin: ǁKaras Region [4] [5] Dordabis Basin: Khomas Region ...
The Okavango River, in the Kalahari Desert, is part of an endorheic basin region, the Okavango Basin, that also includes the Okavango Delta, Lake Ngami, the Nata River, and a number of salt pans such as Makgadikgadi Pan. Etosha Pan in Namibia's Etosha National Park. Turkana Basin, in Kenya, whose basin includes the Omo River of Ethiopia.
The Okavango Delta is a very large, swampy inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches the former bed of the lake. It is now an endorheic basin in which all the water reaching the basin is ultimately evaporated and transpired. The other south draining rivers that once fed the lake have now all been captured by the Zambezi.