Kogin Limpopo

Kogin Limpopo
General information
Height above mean sea level (en)	513 m
Tsawo	1,750 km
Labarin ƙasa
Tsarin Daidaiton Labarin Kasa	24°11′28″S 26°52′14″E / 24.1912°S 26.8706°E / -24.1912; 26.8706
Kasa	Botswana, Mozambik, Afirka ta kudu da Zimbabwe
Hydrography (en)
Tributary (en)	duba Runde River (en) Shashe River (en) Mzingwane River (en) Olifants River (en) Thuli Parks and Wildlife Land (en) Marico River (en) Bubye River (en) Crocodile River (en) Levubu River (en) Sand River (en) Notwane River (en) Lotsane River (en) Serorome River (en) Motloutse River (en) Changane River (en) Matlabas River (en) Mokolo River (en) Nwanedi River (en) Nzhelele River (en) Mogalakwena River (en)
Watershed area (en)	440,000 km²
Ruwan ruwa	Limpopo basin (en)
River mouth (en)	Tekun Indiya

Kogin Limpopo yana hawa a Afirka ta Kudu,^[1] kuma yana kwarara gaba ɗaya ta hanyar Mozambique zuwa Tekun Indiya. Kalmar Limpopo ta samo asali ne daga Rivombo (Livombo/Lebombo), wasu gungun mazaunan Tsonga da Hosi Rivombo suka jagoranta wadanda suka zauna a yankin tsaunukan kuma suka sanyawa yankin sunan shugabansu. Kogin yana da kimanin kilomita 1,750 (1,087 mi), tare da magudanan ruwa mai murabba'in kilomita 415,000 (160,200 sq mi) a cikin girman. Matsakaicin fitowar da aka auna tsawon shekara shine 170 m3 / s (6,200 cu ft/s) a bakin ta.^[2] Limpopo ita ce kogi mafi girma na biyu a Afirka wanda ya kwarara zuwa Tekun Indiya, bayan Kogin Zambezi.

Bature na farko da ya ga kogin shi ne Vasco da Gama, wanda ya toshe bakinsa a shekara ta 1498 kuma ya ba shi suna Espirito Santo River. St Vincent Whitshed Erskine ne ya binciko ƙarancin tafarkinsa a 1868-69, kuma Kyaftin J F Elton ya yi tafiyarsa ta tsakiya a 1870.

Yankin magudanan ruwa na Kogin Limpopo ya ragu akan lokacin ilimin ƙasa. Har zuwa Late Pliocene ko Pleistocene, babban kogin Zambezi ya malale zuwa Kogin Limpopo.^[3] Canjin rabe-raben magudanan ruwa sakamakon motsawar ruwa ne wanda ya daukaka saman arewacin kogin Limpopo na yanzu, yana karkatar da ruwa zuwa Kogin Zambezi.^[4]

1. ↑ "Limpopo River", Encyclopædia Britannica, retrieved 2018-04-29
2. ↑ Nakayama, Mikiyasu (2003). International Waters in Southern Africa. United Nations University Press. p. 9. ISBN 92-808-1077-4.; online at Google Books
3. ↑ Goudie, A.S. (2005). "The drainage of Africa since the Cretaceous". Geomorphology. 67: 437–456.
4. ↑ Moore, A.E. (1999). "A reapprisal of epeirogenic flexure axes in southern Africa". South African Journal of Geology. 102 (4): 363–376.