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town has a population of approximately 30000 inhabitants
concentrated in the Nyamhunga and Mahombekombe townships,
with smaller communities on The Heights, Chawara, Charara
and Camphill. The
lake, on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border, was formed by the Kariba Dam (completed 1958) on the Zambezi
River, which supplies electricity to the copper mining
region of north-central Zambia and to parts of Zimbabwe. The
creation of the lake forced the relocation of about 50,000
people. In 1960 'Operation Noah' captured and removed around 6,000 large animals and numerous small ones threatened by the lake's rising waters.
The dam is one of the largest dams in the world at 128 m high and 579 m long. |
Kariba Lake
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