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The Chobe River is the northern boundary of the Chobe National Park, where the great elephant concentrations occur on the river during the dry season. The ... more

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About Chobe River

The Cuando River is a river in south-central Africa flowing through Angola and Namibia's Caprivi Strip and into the Linyanti Swamp on the northern border of Botswana. Below the swamp, the river is called the Linyanti River and, farther east, the Chobe River, before it flows into the Zambezi River.

The stunning and life-giving Chobe River forms the northern boundary of Chobe National Park.

The river begins its existence as a small mountain spring in Angola, where it is known as the Kwando (a Hambukushu name). From here, it travels great distances through the Kalahari sands before it reaches Botswana and becomes the Linyanti (a Subiya name).

It finally becomes the Chobe at the border post of Ngoma, from where it continues to run along Botswana's northern border before meeting the mighty Zambezi and tumbling over the precipice at Victoria Falls. The Chobe's course, like the Okavango and the Zambezi River, is affected by fault lines which are extensions of the Great Rift Valley.

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