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border. Along this reach it flows in a maze of channels in a swampy corridor 5–10 km wide (map 1: the border with Zambia is the eastern bank of this floodplain, not the river channel). As with all rivers in south-central Africa, its flow varies enormously between the rainy season when it floods
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The Cuando system is noted for its wildlife and for most of its length the land either side is protected as game reserves or wildlife management areas. Some of these suffered poaching during wars and conflict in
Namibia and Angola, but with peace restored in those countries they have the chance of
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In years when the
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So much of the water of the Cuando, Linyanti and Chobe is lost to evaporation in the various swamps that its contribution to the flow of the
Zambezi is very small except in occasional years when it floods excessively.
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Map of the Cuando-Linyanti-Chobe river system in the region of
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