The Okavango Delta in Botswana

Okavango Delta is situated in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. It is the largest inland delta in the world covers an area of about 15,000 square kilometers. This delta is produced by the seasonal flooding of the Okavango River, which drains the summer rains from the Angolan highlands between the months of January to February. It then floods in the delta for the next four mjeseca.Delta floods three times more than their normal floods between the months of June to August attract large concentrations of wildlife from miles and miles away. It was during this time that many tourists tour of this beautiful site for game viewing.

This large area of the delta was once part of the lake Makgadikgad, an ancient lake is believed to have dried up until the beginning of the Holocene. While most of the water flooding in the delta, some of the water consumed through evaporation, evaporation from the plant while the rest of the water flowing into the lake Ngami.Poplave in the delta too salty to support plant growth, except for palm trees to the salt resistance. Most of the salt desert islands have white patches of salt in the center, trees and grass at the edge of the island, where it is less salt. The main island is the largest island in the delta. This island is seventy kilometers long and fifteen kilometers wide and the failure line. This area was reserved as a hunting ground for a major in the early days.

The Delta is a permanent and seasonal habitats of different animals such as, white and black rhinoceros, the Nile crocodiles, hippos, elephants, African Bush, African buffalo, zebra, antelope among many others. There are about four hundred species of birds have been recorded in the delta and they include the ostrich, sacred ibis, African fish eagle, crested crane and lilac chest-roller. About 200,000 large mammals are seasonal and migrate to summer rains. About 30,000 of these elephants are mammals and mammals bizona.Antilopa is the most popular and has a population of about 60,000 antelope. These animals feed on aquatic plants and take to the water after being threatened by predators.

A large part of the Okavango vegetation of papyrus and reed rafts which play an important role in providing cohesion pijeska.Delta which is very flat to slowly rising due to heavy amounts pijeska.Okavango Delta has five ethnic groups and to Wayeyi, Dceriku, Bugakhwe, Anikwhe and Hambukushu.Hambukushu, Dceriku Wayeyi and the Bantus who depend on fishing, agriculture, hunting and wild plant and hrane.Bugakhwe Anikwhe the Bushmen who depend on hunting, fishing and wild plant foods. The Delta is under the political control and the Botswana people for many years.