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Kwando River
The southern border of eastern Caprivi
is defined rather indistinctly along the line of the Kwando, the Linyanti
and the Chobe Rivers. These are actually the same river in different
stages. The Kwando comes south from Angola, meets the Kalahari's sands,
and forms a swampy region of reedbeds and waterways called the Linyanti
swamps. (To confuse names further, locals refer to sections of the
Kwando above Lianshulu as ‘the Mashi’.)
These swamps form the core of Mamili National Park. In good years
a river emerges from here, called the Linyanti, and flows northeast
into Lake Liambezi. It starts again from the eastern side of Lake
Liambezi, renamed the Chobe. This beautiful river has a short course
before it is swallowed into the mighty Zambezi, which continues over
the Victoria Falls, through Lake Kariba, and eventually discharges
into the Indian Ocean.
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