What are Victoria Falls?
What are Victoria Falls? : Victoria Falls are known as spectacular safari attraction waterfalls in the entire world. Below the Victoria Falls there is Zambezi River that is more than 2km wide at this point that reaches noisy down a series of basalt gorges and makes the increase of the iridescent mist that can be observed in a distance of more than 20km away. Victoria falls also known as Mosi-Oa-Tunya that means the smoke that thunders by the locals. Victoria falls is the world’s greatest sheet of falling water and significant worldwide for its incredible geology and geomorphological features and active land formation processes with the gorgeous beauty added to the falls majorly the mist, magical rainbow and the mist.
Victoria Falls extends over 6860 ha and comprises 4779 ha of the Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park in the Zambia side and 2340 ha of Victoria Falls national park in the Zimbabwe side, 741 ha of the riverine strip of Zambezi National Park (Zimbabwe). Victoria Falls stands on the altitude of about 915 meters above the sea level (a.m.s.l) and further extends to about 1708 meters wide with an average depth of 100 meters and with the depth point of about 108 meters.
While on Botswana safari, Chobe National Park is just close to explore the Victoria Falls and travel to these magnificent falls it takes you one day safari for various tourists visiting Victoria Falls. That offers you sighting more flora and fauna compared to Hwange national Park.
On a safari to the wonderful waterfalls, the sprays from the Victoria Falls can be sighted from a distance of about 30km along Lusaka road Zambia and as well as 50km from Bulawayo Road Zimbabwe. Victoria falls the largest curtain of the falling water in the entire world; that is with 1708 meters wide and width up to 500 million liters per minute descending at 61 meters (Devil’s Cataract), 83 meters (Main Falls), 99 meters (Rainbow Falls), 98 meters (Eastern Cataract). Victoria Falls is a home to the eight beautiful gorges of the igneous origin that is the comprising basalts and various islands in the core zone act as the breeding sites for most known endangered and migratory species like Black Eagle and Taita Falcon. Victoria Falls is surrounded by the riverine rainforest which is a fragile ecosystem of discontinuous forest on sandy alluvium, dependent upon maintenance of much water and high humidity.
Victoria Falls and the eight steep sided gorges are formed from the result of changing waterfall positions over a geological time scale, the gorges are the spectacular example of river capture and the erosive forces of the water still continue of the sculpture and the hard basalts. These gorges form a zigzag course of a distance of about 150km along the Zambezi River below the Victoria Falls. The seven previous waterfalls occupy the seven gorges below the present falls, the Devil’s Cataract in Zimbabwe is the beginning point for cutting back to a new waterfall.
Victoria Falls has an aerial view of the falls that shows the falls positions, the upstream are stunning series of riverine islands formed during the ongoing geological and the geomorphological processes. Victoria falls is characterized by the banded basalt of the ancient lava flow, Kalahari sandstones and the chalcedony out of which stone artefacts of Homo Habilis dating million years, stone tools of the middle stone ag and weapons, adornments and digging tools of the late stone age that indicate occupation by hunter gatherers.
Victoria Falls is under the National Heritage Conservation Act (1998) and Zambia Wildlife Act on the Zambia part and Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Act Cap.20.14 of 2008(revised) on the Zimbabwean side. This principal legislation provides for the legal protection of the resources with in Victoria Falls, this is well-defined and buffered boundary that requires clean demarcation.
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