Okavango Delta #
![Okavango Delta Okavango Delta](/attach/Geography/Africa/Botswana/Pictures/Factbook_Pictures/110bc/110bc.jpg)
Image Courtesy of USGS, under PD
This false-color satellite image shows where the river empties into a basin in the Kalahari Desert, creating a maze of lagoons, channels, and islands where vegetation flourishes, even in the dry season, and wildlife abounds. The delta originally fed into an ancient, now-dry Lake Makgadikgadi.