Key facts
- Location
- Botswana
- Lake type
- endorheic
- Primary inflows
- Okavango Delta
- Primary outflows
- None ( Endorheic )
- Basin countries
- Botswana
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- endorheic lake
- Country
- Botswana
- Area
- 250
- Elevation
- 900
- Image
- Lake Ngami-1857.jpg
- Length
- 35
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- Commons category
- Lake Ngami
- inflows
- Okavango River
- basin country
- Botswana
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- time of discovery or invention
- 1849-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Ngami is an endorheic lake in Botswana, north of the Kalahari Desert. It is seasonally filled by the Taughe River, an effluent of the Okavango River system flowing out of the western side of the Okavango Delta. It is one of the fragmented remnants of the ancient Lake Makgadikgadi. Although the lake has shrunk dramatically beginning from 1890, it remains an important habitat for birds and wildlife, especially in flood years.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Ngami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.