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Africa, AFRICA IMPORTANT INFORMATION, GEOGRAPHY, MAIN ECOSYSTEMS, imagen,…
Africa
Africa is the third biggest continent for its size followed by Asia and America, and the second most populated in the world.
The average heightof Africa is 600 meters above sea level, and it does not have, like other continents, extremely high zones and other low ones, because plateaus predominate.
Okavango Delta:More than a delta, because it does not go out to sea, it is an extensive alluvial region flooded by the Okavango River, it is born from a quite rainy area in Angola.
Sahara Desert:The warmestin the world, with 9 million km2 of elevation. It covers most of North Africa, from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean
It has 54 independent countries, Algeria is the more extensive, the most populated is Nigeria and the smallest is the Republic of the Seychelles.
Africa is a continent crossed by the equinoctial line and as it is so long, it extends from the temperate zones of the north to the temperate zones of the south, comprising numerous climatic zones.
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Sudanese savanna:A tropical fruit savanna fringethat crosses the African continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ethiopian massif.
Forest of the Congo:After a transition zone from the Sahel, the Congo forest occupies most of the Africa center. The second largest tropical forest continues in the world after the Amazonia
Namib Desert:It is the oldest desert in the world, since it existed during the Tertiary Era, 65 million years ago
Kalahari Desert:Of 930,000 km2 of extension, it crosses several countries of the South African.
Great Lakes:A high plateau along the Great Rift Valleys hosts a series of large lakes, the best known being Lake Victoria, the second largest freshwater lake in the world
Sierra of Kenya: A series of mountains including Mount Kenya, which is located in the center of the country to which it gives its name and is the second highest peak in Africa, after Kilimanjaro
Ethiopian Massif: It is the mountainous region, formed by high plateausand plateaus, which extends to an averageheight of 1,500 meters above sea level by Etopia, Eritrea and north of Somalia in northwest Africa
Great Rift Valley:It is a large geological fracture whose total extension is 4,830 km in a north-south direction, and in Africa it goes from Djibouti to Mozambique
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