Kafue Flats

For other uses, see Kafue (disambiguation).
Designations
Designated28 August 1991
Reference no.530[1]

The Kafue Flats (locally called Butwa[2]) are a vast area of swamp, open lagoon and seasonally inundated flood-plain on the Kafue River in the Southern, Central and Lusaka provinces of Zambia. They are a shallow flood plain 240 km (150 mi) long and about 50 km (31 mi) wide,[3] flooded to a depth of less than a meter in the rainy season (deeper in some lagoons and permanently swampy areas), and drying out to a clayey black soil in the dry season.

  1. ^ "Kafue Flats". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. ^ Sorensen, Carol (1995). "Controls and Sanctions over the Use of Resources In the Kafue Flats of Zambia". Presented at the International Association for the Study of Common Property Fifth Common Property Conference 24–28 May 1995 at Bode, Norway.
  3. ^ Google Earth accessed 1 September 2014.