Barotse Flood Plain (Zambia)
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Name (Hebrew)
מישור שיטפון ברוטסה (זמביה)
Name (Latin)
Barotse Flood Plain (Zambia)
Other forms of name
Barotse Floodplain (Zambia)
Barotse Plain (Zambia)
Barotse Plains (Zambia)
Coordinates
23.16666667 23.16666667 -15.66666667 -15.66666667 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Floodplains Zambia
See Also From tracing place name
Zambezi River Valley
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q4863069
Library of congress:
sh 98004283
Sources of Information
- Report to the Government of Zambia on fishery development in the central Barotse Flood Plain, 1968:p. 1 (Central Barotse Flood Plain on the Upper Zambezi River, Zambia) p. 3 ("Once a year, Central Barotseland is flooded for several months when the Zambezi River leaves its channel and expands into the Barotse Plain - 120 miles long by 50 miles wide in the center - to form a reed-filled lake.") p. 4 (Barotse Floodplain)
- GEOnet, July 15, 1998(Barotse Flood Plain, Zambia, PLN, 15⁰40ʹ00ʺS, 23⁰10ʹ00ʺE; Barotse Plains, see Barotse Flood Plain)
Wikipedia description:
The Barotse Floodplain, also known as the Bulozi Plain, Lyondo, Ngulu, or the Zambezi Floodplain, is one of Africa's great wetlands, on the Zambezi River in the Western Province of Zambia. It is a designated Ramsar site, regarded as being of high conservation value. The name recognises the floodplain as spawning the culture and way of life of the Lozi people, "Rotse" being a variant of Lozi, and "Ba" meaning "people". They became a powerful kingdom in Central/Southern Africa under their king or litunga Lewanika, whose realm extended up to 300 km from the plain and was called Barotseland.
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