The Okavango Delta is INSANE #africa

Learn about the #Geography and Wildlife of the #Okavango Delta in #Botswana! The Okavango River makes its way from the Angolan Highlands into the Kalahari Desert but upon entering Botswana, the ground levels so drastically, the river starts spreading far beyond its original banks. This flooding creates one of the most fascinating wetland regions in the world, with seasonal floodings covering thousands of square kilometers. The area is protected as a UNESCO world heritage site but it is not just important to us Humans. Over a million large mammals live around the delta, migrating from the surrounding savannah when the fresh waters are arriving every autumn. If you want to learn more about the ecosystems and geographical features of this planet, be sure to subscribe and leave a like. Cheers.

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[vhemingson]

One of the most unique and remarkably beautiful landscapes in the world.

[YouToo]

These kind of rivers and lakes will be the most vulnerable to climate change.

[dshe]

I'd heard of the Okovango Delta, but didn't know how it was formed. Fascinating, thank you.

[bhagyajitdas]

Similar river is found called Luni in India

[Zestieee]

honestly one of the most beautiful and fascinating parts of the world.
nature does really unpredictably cool stuff sometimes. i never knew this existed until just recently and i was so fascinated

[Aoderic]

Yes I did know, I was there 20 years ago, it's a marvellous place, teeming with life.

[thabisothaby]

Let's just a raise a toast to our God for the beautiful world he has given us❤ cheers to the wonderful man above ❤

[jamesrandell]

I have been there and it's wild Africa at it's best.

[grootjohnmorrison]

Do a trip from Capetown north to Etosha, then Caprivi and finally the Okavango. From there R&R at Lost City..

[janicereid]

Travel there at every opportunity I get .

[Matt-Ledford]

Chief's Island, incredibly beautiful area.

[mandandi]

I think there is another delta in Europe similar to the Okavango delta, where a river doesn't flow into the ocean or lake. Beautiful places.

[sirdancelot]

Reminds me a little bit of the Canadian Rockies right next to the Prairies. You can see the Rockies from Calgary, Alberta. It is such a dramatic shift, I sometimes find it hard to believe I live so close to a mountain range just to the west.

Patagonia is such a gorgeous region of the world, would love to visit some day.

[TamimLB]

There actually is a connection called the Chobe River to the Zambezi River that goes the the ocean.

[jksinorbit]

I have been there and it really reminds you of what Eden might have been like

[زنكي]

I wonder if the delta is relatively salty.

[gregwiens]

The Sahara used to have at least two areas like this tens of thousands of years ago

[EA-dweller]

It’s not an island. It’s called the Okavango Delta. It’s a river that comes all the way from Angola, crosses the Namibian Kalahari desert and ends up creating an unique environment in Botswana where you have a flooded savanna that appears to divide that place into multiple little flooded islands. Due to these floods, lions have adopted new hunting techniques and that allow them to attack big preys instead of hunting the vulnerable ones. The floods obviously slows down the speech of buffaloes and lions have adopted to swimming better and being more stealthy than other African lions, having to roam around in those deep flooded areas also contributed to developing those impressive muscles. This diet of huge preys and food abundance is what made them get bigger than the rest of other lions.

[petergould]

Would not the Okavango Delta be a lake? Admittedly a shallow lake but still a lake.

[mrman]

the river is MAKING the lake, just not there yet