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The '''Kafue Flats''' (locally called '''Butwa'''<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sorensen|first1=Carol|title=Controls and Sanctions over the Use of Resources In the Kafue Flats of Zambia|journal=Presented at the International Association for the Study of Common Property Fifth Common Property Conference 24–28 May 1995 at Bode, Norway|date=1995}}</ref>) are a vast area of swamp, open lagoon and seasonally inundated flood-plain on the [[Kafue River]] in the [[Southern Province, Zambia|Southern]], [[Central Province, Zambia|Central]] and [[Lusaka Province, Zambia|Lusaka]] provinces of [[Zambia]]. They are a shallow [[Zambezian flooded grasslands|flood plain]] 240 km long and about 50 km wide,<ref name="Google">[http://earth.google.com Google Earth] accessed 1 September 2014.</ref> 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. | The '''Kafue Flats''' (locally called '''Butwa'''<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sorensen|first1=Carol|title=Controls and Sanctions over the Use of Resources In the Kafue Flats of Zambia|journal=Presented at the International Association for the Study of Common Property Fifth Common Property Conference 24–28 May 1995 at Bode, Norway|date=1995}}</ref>) are a vast area of swamp, open lagoon and seasonally inundated flood-plain on the [[Kafue River]] in the [[Southern Province, Zambia|Southern]], [[Central Province, Zambia|Central]] and [[Lusaka Province, Zambia|Lusaka]] provinces of [[Zambia]]. They are a shallow [[Zambezian flooded grasslands|flood plain]] 240 km long and about 50 km wide,<ref name="Google">[http://earth.google.com Google Earth] accessed 1 September 2014.</ref> 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. | ||
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==Hydrology and dams== | ==Hydrology and dams== | ||
The hydrology of the [[Kafue River]] and Kafue Flats have been significantly altered by the construction in the 1970s of two dams, firstly at [[Kafue Gorge Dam|Kafue Gorge]] downstream of the flats and then at [[Itezhi-Tezhi Dam|Itezhi-Tezhi]] upstream of the flats as parts of a scheme to generate hydroelectric power. | The hydrology of the [[Kafue River]] and Kafue Flats have been significantly altered by the construction in the 1970s of two dams, firstly at [[Kafue Gorge Dam|Kafue Gorge]] downstream of the flats and then at [[Itezhi-Tezhi Dam|Itezhi-Tezhi]] upstream of the flats as parts of a scheme to generate hydroelectric power. | ||
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