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Lake Kariba is over 223 kilometres (139 miles) long and up to 40 kilometres (25 miles) in width. It covers an area of 5,580 square kilometres (2,150 square miles) and its storage capacity is 185 cubic kilometres (44 cubic miles). The mean depth of the lake is 29 metres (95 feet); the maximum depth is
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and other big game species including lion, cheetah, leopard, buffalo and a myriad of smaller plains game species. The southern
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The portion of Lake Kariba which falls within
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and other water birds patrol the shorelines, as do large numbers of
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species have been introduced to the lake, notably the
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377:Bed Island
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278:Kariba Dam
193:Max. depth
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482:See also
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584:Bibcode
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383:Ecology
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