Kafue
National Park at 22,400 square kilometres is Zambia’s largest and oldest
National Park. Named after the Kafue river whose headwaters lie in the
Copperbelt on the border with the DRC and flow southwards through the park from
North to South. The habitats and topography are extremely varied from the vast
plains of the Busanga, the Miombo Forrest areas, flood plains, the rocky
islands of the Kafue, and the lake that sits behind the Itezhi-Tezhi Dam. The
Kafue is a wilderness like no other
A
vast area and seasonally abundant surface water mean that the game population
in this park is dispersed, but the huge wilderness gives rise to a diversity of
bird and animal life that is almost unmatched.
Notable species in the Kafue include a small
population of Cheetah, Red Lechwe, Sitatunga, Lions, and many others.
