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Wiktionary
alt. A river in S Africa, flowing S and W from Zambia through E Angola and Zambia and then E along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the Indian Ocean. n. A river in S Africa, flowing S and W from Zambia through E Angola and Zambia and then E along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
Wikipedia
The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. The area of its basin is , slightly less than half that of the Nile. The rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the country to empty into the Indian Ocean.
The Zambezi's most noted feature is Victoria Falls. Other notable falls include the Chavuma Falls at the border between Zambia and Angola, and Ngonye Falls, near Sioma in Western Zambia.
There are two main sources of hydroelectric power on the river, the Kariba Dam, which provides power to Zambia and Zimbabwe, and the Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique, which provides power to Mozambique and South Africa. There is also a smaller power station at Victoria Falls.
The Zambezi (sometimes spelt Zambesi) is the fourth largest river in Africa, and the largest to flow into the Indian Ocean. Zambezi or Zambesi may also refer to;
In geography- Zambezi, Zambia, a town in the North-Western Province of Zambia
- Zambezi Escarpment, a name used for the escarpments forming both sides of the rift valley in which lie the middle Zambezi River and Lake Kariba
- Lower Zambezi National Park, which lies on the north bank of the Zambezi River in south eastern Zambia
- Zambezi District, a district of Zambia, located in North-Western Province
- Barotse Floodplain, also known as the Zambezi Floodplain, a wetland on the Zambezi River
- Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, a conservation area in southern Africa which includes the Upper Zambezi basin
- Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project (MZWP) a project being undertaken in the arid Matabeleland North province of Zimbabwe
- Zambezi Zinger, a rollercoaster which was based at Worlds of Fun, an amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri, United States
- Air Zambezi, an airline in Zimbabwe
- Zambezi Airlines, a privately owned airline based in Lusaka, Zambia
- Mulobezi Railway (once known as the Zambezi Sawmills Railway) was constructed to carry timber from Mulobezi to Livingstone in the Southern Province of Zambia, when the country was Northern Rhodesia
- Bull shark, also known as the Zambezi shark, a shark common to warm, shallow waters
- Upper Zambezi labeo, a fish of the genus Labeo
- Zambezi flapshell turtle, a species of softshell turtle in the Trionychidae family
- Zambezi indigobird, also known as the twinspot indigobird or green indigobird, is a species of bird in the Viduidae family
- Zambezi yellowfish, a fish found in the Zambezi River and common to southern Africa
- Zambezi Sun, a Thoroughbred racehorse who competes in France
- O Zambezi, the fifth album by New Zealand / Australian rock band Dragon
- "Zambezi", a song composed by Nico Carstens which became a world hit and was recorded by artists such as Eddie Calvert, Acker Bilk, Bert Kaempfert, The Shadows, James Last, Chet Atkins, Floyd Kramer, Johnny Dankworth and The Piranhas
- Zambezi, the code name of an AMD microprocessor architecture for the desktop market
- Zambezi FM Radio is a commercial radio station located in the tourist capital of Zambia Livingstone
- Zambezi is Zimbabwe's national beer, see beer in Africa
- Zambezi is the name of a fictional country in the 1991 comedy film King Ralph
Usage examples of "zambezi".
Now the pride of the Zimbabwe airforce, they had once mercilessly blasted the guerrilla camps beyond the Zambezi.
Until after midnight he elaborated his plans for her: the 93 development of the twin ranches in the south, the rebui Iding of the homestead and the restocking with blood cattle, but mostly he dwelt upon his plans for Zambezi Waters and its wildlife, knowing that this was where her interest would centre.
Now when it reached the escarpment of the Zambezi valley, it broke up into eddies and backlashes amongst the hills and the broken ground of the rim.
Camacho went ashore on the south bank of the Zambezi at noon at the small native village at Chamba, a hundred miles below Tete.
After crossing the Zambezi drifts in darkness, and negotiating the cordon sanitaire, he had made his way south through the abandoned strip and reached the main road near the collieries at Wankie.
With Hans Groenewald on the estate, Craig was able to concentrate on developing Zambezi Waters for tourism.
The three of them, Craig, Sally-Anne and the architect, camped for a week on Zambezi Waters, and walked both banks of the Chizarira river, examining every inch of the terrain, choosing the sites of five guest-lodges, and the service complex which would support them.
The constant presence of armed men began to irk both Craig and Sally-Anne, and one evening towards the end of their stay at Zambezi Waters, they slipped their guards.
When Craig was ready to commence actual construction on Zambezi Waters, he complained to Peter Fungabera about the difficulty of finding labourers in the deep bush.
Everything seemed to come back to the trial, even the running of King's Lynn and the final preparations for the opening of the lodges at Zambezi Waters could not seduce Craig away from Sally-Anne's bedside and the preparations for the trial.
They reached the kopie in the early part of the afternoon, and from the summit Craig looked towards the camps of Zambezi Waters on the river.
Their talk ranged across time, and for the entertainment and instruction of the two girls, both Craig and Tungata related the history of this land between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers, with each of them concentrating on the role played by their own nations and families in the discovery and occupation and the strife that had torn it.
Craig thought, and had a sudden nostalgic twinge as he remembered that rutted, tortuous track through the bad lands below the Chobe river, that wide green tributary of the great Zambezi.
In 1970 there had been an estimated twelve thousand black rhinoceros left in Zambia across the Zambezi River.
Accompanied only by another old female past calf bearing, her companion of forty years, she went deep into the fastnesses of the swamps that lie on the south bank of the Zambezi River and there, on an islet fringed with ivory-nut palms, surrounded by miles of papyrus beds, and with the white-headed fish eagles chanting overhead, she cleared an area of sandy earth for her couch.