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Acacia affluents africana Altitude asl Nearest Towns banks basin border capensis catchment central channel coast coastal plain confluence Conservation Status covered Cyperus Cyperus papyrus delta depression depth dominated drainage drains dry season east eastern endorheic estuary extends flood floodplain Flora & Fauna flows freshwater fringed gallery forests highlands Human Impact Impact & Utilisation Impoundments islands km long km wide lagoons Lake Chad Lake Malawi Lake Mweru Lake Tanganyika Lake Victoria mammals mangrove marshes Massif maximum mm/yr mountains mouth National Park Niger Nile niloticus northern open water Oreochromis pans papyrus permanent swamps Phragmites plateau pools rain reaches regional introduction Rift Valley rises riverine saline savanna seasonally inundated Senegal River shallow shore situated slopes southern species streams surface swamp forest Tanzania temperatures tidal tributaries Typha Typha domingensis Unprotected upstream vegetation Vossia watercourses western wetlands width Zaire River Zambezi Zambia zone
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Page ii - Union, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Its mission is to support conservation and sustainable development by collecting and analysing global conservation data so that decisions...
Page ii - The first UN agency to be based in a developing country (Nairobi, Kenya), UNEP also has regional or liaison offices in Bangkok, Geneva, New York. Mexico City...
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Page 96 - Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, comprising the Suez Canal, the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the South-East Coast of Arabia from Ras Baghashwa to Ras Al Hadd, the Coast of Africa from Ras Asir to Ras Hafun, Socotra and its adjacent Islands. 8th edn.
Page 701 - Nature's freaks," is situated at the northern extremity of those broken hills which take their rise in the neighbourhood of Okamabuti, and in the midst of a dense coppice. So effectually is it hidden from view, that a person might pass within fifty paces of it without being aware of its existence. Owing to its steep and rugged sides, cattle have not access to the water ; and even a man can only approach this enormous well by means of a steep and slippery footpath. No perceptible difference could...
Page 425 - Mauritania in the north, Mali in the east, Guinea and Guinea Bissau in the south and the Atlantic Ocean in the west. It encompasses Gambia except for the coastal section.
Page 219 - Introduction Sudan is the largest country in Africa with an area of 2 505 815 km2.
Page 148 - Its body is composed of rockfill, sand and clay. It has an impervious core, a grout curtain extending 180 m under the core to meet the bed rock, and a horizontal upstream impervious blanket.
Page 61 - Algeria in the east, by the Mediterranean Sea in the north and the Atlantic Ocean in the west.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Directory of African Wetlands International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources |
| Author | R. H. Hughes |
| Contributors | International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre |
| Publisher | IUCN, 1992 |
| ISBN | 2880329493, 9782880329495 |
| Length | 820 pages |
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