The Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River is
one of the seven wonders of the natural world and was declared a UNESCO World
Heritage Site in 1989. The waters of the
Zambezi plunge 103 metres into a chasm which is 1.71km in length. The falling water makes a deafening roar at
the height of the annual river flood between February and May,
throwing up clouds of spray and drenching the opposite cliff in rain. Flow
rates of 500 million litres per minute when in full flood have been recorded.
The Falls are aptly known as Mosi-O-Tunya, “The Smoke that Thunders”,
a name which was given to them by the Kololo people, a South African tribe that
had colonised the Livingstone area in the 1830s. The local Toka-Leya people
called them “Shungu-na-Mutitima” which has the same meaning.
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