Kafue National Park

Kafue National Park - park, south-central Zambia. Established in 1950 and located about 200 miles (322 km) west of Lusaka, the park covers an area of 8,650 square miles (22,400 square km) and consists of a vast and gently undulating plateau, situated along the middle reaches of the Kafue River and its two tributaries, the Lufupa and the Lunga. The vegetation is lush and green, varying from mixed forest, thicket, ...

Kafue River - river rising on the Congo (Kinshasa)-Zambia border. It meanders generally southward until it turns west near the Lukanga Swamp (which it drains). The river then flows south and finally east through the Kafue Flats and Kafue Gorge to join the Zambezi River near Chirundu, Zimbabwe, after a course of 600 miles (960 km). One of Zambia's major rivers, its waters are used for irrigation. Its basin, ...

Cape buffalo - largest and most formidable of African bovids. Similar to the water buffalo of Asia, the Cape buffalo is massive, black, and sparsely haired, standing up to 1.5 metres (5 feet) at the shoulder, with bulls weighing up to about 900 kg (2,000 pounds). Its heavy horns typically curve downward, then up and inward, spanning up to a metre in width. A broad shield, which takes seven years to fully ...

Zambia - On the plateau, miombo woodland is characteristic: a semicontinuous tree cover dominated by small leguminous trees of the Brachystegia and Julbernardia genera but with a significant grassy undergrowth. Burning of the grasses in the dry season causes the trees to develop a corky, fire-resistant bark. Mopane woodland, in which Colophospermum mopane dominates but in which the baobab is distinctive, ...

Livingstone - town, extreme southern Zambia. It lies on the northern bank of the Zambezi River at the Zimbabwe border. The first European settlement in the area was upriver at the Old Drift Ferry Station in the 1890s; the town's present site was occupied in 1905 with the completion of Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line. Livingstone was the capital of Northern Rhodesia from 1907 to 1935, and became the ...