The Whole length of the Zambezi River stretches over 300km and has been set-aside as a protected wilderness.
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Zambezi River travel info Giant waterfalls are universally honoured as " wonders of the world." Despite the cliché', the great falls of the Zambezi River do not fail to live up to expectations. Here, the wide river plunges over 300-foot cliffs in a cataclysm of falling water, awesome in its power. The Zambezi has been measured to pour as much as 180million gallons per minute over the falls! At high-flood stage, a roaring, mile-wide curtain of water makes the ground shakes and throws a plume of mist hundreds of feet into the air.
The Zambezi has its source in a lonely grove of trees on the watershed that forms the boundary between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. For 1200km the river, known here by the Aluyi people as the Lwambayi (great river), flows in easy fashion across the sheet of lava that emerged some 180 million years ago and which today forms the central plateau of Zambia.
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