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Tsauchab, the Glossary

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Geography of Hardap Region
Namib-Naukluft National Park
Rivers of Namibia

Catchment area

In human geography, a catchment area is the area from which a location, such as a city, service or institution, attracts a population that uses its services and economic opportunities.

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Deadvlei

Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, in a valley between the dunes in the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia.

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An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other, external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent and seasonal lakes and swamps that equilibrate through evaporation.

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Ephemerality

Ephemerality (from the Greek word ἐφήμερος, meaning 'lasting only one day') is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly.

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Flash flood

A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions.

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Hardap Region

Hardap is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Mariental.

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).

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Maerua crassifolia

Maerua crassifolia is a species of plant in the Capparaceae family.

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Namib

The Namib (Namibe) is a coastal desert in Southern Africa. Tsauchab and Namib are Namib-Naukluft National Park.

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Namib-Naukluft National Park

The Namib-Naukluft Park is a national park in western Namibia, situated between the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the edge of the Great Escarpment.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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NASA Earth Observatory

NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999.

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Naukluft Mountains

The Naukluft Mountains (Afrikaans and German: Naukluftberge) are a mountain range in central Namibia. Tsauchab and Naukluft Mountains are geography of Hardap Region and Namib-Naukluft National Park.

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Riparian forest

A riparian forest or riparian woodland is a forested or wooded area of land adjacent to a body of water such as a river, stream, pond, lake, marshland, estuary, canal, sink or reservoir.

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Salt pan (geology)

Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun.

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Sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.

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Sesriem

Sesriem is a small settlement in the Namib Desert, in the Hardap Region of Namibia, close to the southern end of the Naukluft Mountains. Tsauchab and Sesriem are Namib-Naukluft National Park.

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Sossusvlei

Sossusvlei (sometimes written Sossus Vlei) is a salt and clay pan surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia. Tsauchab and Sossusvlei are Namib-Naukluft National Park.

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