A vast seasonal floodplain of the upper Zambezi River in western Zambia, home of the Lozi people and their traditional Kuomboka ceremony marking the annual move to higher ground as the floodwaters rise. It is one of the largest floodplain wetlands in southern Africa.
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The flood leaves behind a fertile grey to black soil overlaying the Kalahari sands, enriched by silt deposited by the flood as well as humus from vegetation killed by the initial flood, and from decaying aquatic plants left to dry out in the mud.
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