Okavango Swamp

The Okavango Delta (or '''Okavango Swamp'''), in Botswana , is the world's largest inland Delta . : ''"Where all this water goes is a mystery"'', Aurel Schultz , 1897 The area was once part of Lake Makgadikgadi , an ancient lake that dried up some 10,000 years ago. Today, the Okavango River has no outlet to the sea. Instead, it empties onto the sands of the Kalahari Desert , irrigating 15,000 km² of the desert. Each year some 11 cubic kilometres of water reach the delta. Some of this water reaches further south to create Lake Ngami . The water entering the delta is unusually pure, due to the lack of industrialization along the Okavango River. Because the water does not have an outlet to the sea, significant quantities of Salt have been precipitated beneath the islands as the water passes through the sand aquifer. The waters of the Okavango Delta are subject to seasonal flooding, which begins about mid-summer in the north and six months later in the south. The water from the delta is evaporated relatively rapidly by the high temperatures, resulting in a cycle of cresting and dropping water in the south. Islands can disappear completely during the peak flood, then reappear at the end of the season. PEOPLE
	The Bugakhwe And anikwhe Are	"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Vrhbosna/Bushmen" class="copylinks">Bushmen who have traditionally practiced fishing, hunting, and the collection of wild plant foods Bugakhwe utilized both forest and riverine resources while the anikhwe mostly focused on riverine resources The Hambukushu, Dceriku, and Bugakhwe are present along the Okavango River in Angola and in the Caprivi Strip of Namibia, and there are small numbers of Hambukushu and Bugakhwe in Zambia as well Within the Okavango Delta, over the past 150 years or so Hambukushu, Dceriku, and Bugakhwe have inhabited the Panhandle and the Magwegqana in the northeastern Delta anikhwe have inhabited the Panhandle and the area along the Boro River through the Delta, as well as the area along the Boteti River
	The Okavango Delta Has Been Under The Political Control Of The Batawana (a	"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Vrhbosna/Tswana" class="copylinks">Tswana sub-tribe) for several hundred years Most Batawana, however, have traditionally lived on the edges of the Delta Small numbers of people from other ethnic groups such as Ovaherero and Ovambanderu now live in parts of the Okavango Delta, but since the majority of the members of those groups live elsewhere and the habitation is recent they are not considered as part of the Okavango Delta peoples There are also several Bushmen groups represented by a handful of people These groups were decimated by diseases of contact in the middle part of the 20th century, and most of the remaining members have intermarried with the anikwhe

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