Savuti
| Savuti | ||
 The Savuti (right), the Magwekwana (left) and the Linyanti (above) on a satellite image. |
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 Botswana
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| source | Inflow from the Linyanti at high tide. 18 ° 31 ′ 9 ″ S , 23 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E |
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| Source height | 946 m | |
| muzzle | It seeps into the Mababe Depression in the Savuti Swamp. Coordinates: 18 ° 38 ′ 14 ″ S , 24 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E 18 ° 38 ′ 14 ″ S , 24 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 930 m | |
| Height difference | 16 m | |
| Bottom slope | 0.17 ‰ | |
| length | 94 km | |
The Savuti , also known as the Savuti Channel in English , is a river in the Chobe National Park in Botswana .
description
The Savuti is the extension of the Magwekwana (or Selinda) river, which releases water from the Okavango Delta to the Linyanti during floods . Conversely, the Savuti absorbs water from the Linyanti during floods in the Cuando catchment area and forwards it to the Mababe Depression ( Mababe Depression ), where it seeps away .
The Mababe Depression, once a large lake, with the inland delta of the Savuti, the Savuti Marsh ( Savuti Marsh ), is an important water source in the Chobe National Park. Therefore, a lot of wild animals gather there.
Drain
The Savuti flowed continuously until the late 1880s and then stopped until 1958. Then it stopped again in 1982 and started flowing again in 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mababe Depression. In: Tracks4Africa. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
- ^ A b Paul Shaw: A historical note on the outflows of the Okavango Delta System. ( PDF , 546 kB) 1984, accessed on October 9, 2019 (English).
- ^ Wally and Horst Hagen: The African national parks as habitats for elephants . In: Vitus B. Dröscher (Ed.): Save the elephants of Africa . 1st edition. Goldmann Verlag , Munich 1990, ISBN 3-442-12322-4 , p. 255 f .
- ^ History and wildlife of the Savuti area. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .