Biography of the Zambezi River
Kasbo Waisy; Ambezi. The name Zambezi was given by D. Livingston, a researcher of the African continent. Before him, the ubiquitous Vasco da Gamma and the Portuguese Juan de Barrush managed to visit him here. One version tells that the river is called derivative on behalf of the Mbitsa tribe. The other insists that the tribes have nothing to do with it, and the hydronym came from the word mbey, which means "fish".
How many researchers are so many versions. The age of the river regarding the age, it is known that in the Pleistocene, Zambezi flowed in the opposite direction. Then tectonic activity forced to change direction and current. Thus, the age of the river has at least a million. Legend love the sea and taiga. I recently decided to do journalism. I publish cognitive articles about objects of nature, animals.
To ask a question of the African people of Tong, who was forcibly moved in the construction of the carba dam, believes that Nyami-nays live in Zambezi. It looks like a snake with a fish head, but this does not prevent him from taking care of his beloved people. It was good for the spirit until they began to build a dam. Tonga warned the builders that Nyahi-ni was dissatisfied.
They only dismissed and continued to dig the ground with excavators. Before completing the construction, an unprecedented flood occurred, which destroyed the unfinished dam and killed many builders. Relatives arrived behind the bodies, but they could not find them. The tonses stood and shook their heads in crushedly, they say, Nyami-nays was completely angry and we need to sacrifice someone.
The contractors agreed with them. He was stabbed and a black calf was laid in the water near the shore. The next day, he disappeared, and in his place the missing bodies of the builders found. If the disappearance of the calf can still be explained by crocodiles, parasites and other predators, then no one could explain this way after 3 days of dead. The cunning people of Tonga believes that nias-nues live near the dam and he is crowded there.
He pounds his tail along the bottom and asks him to be released. From time to time, underground shocks are felt near the dam, but scientists explain them to the seismicactivity and pressure of the water thickness in the reservoir. Hydrology and climate power of the river depends on the amount of rains and groundwater. The equatorial climate in the region is divided into 3 seasons: May-August, there is a cold winter without precipitation; September-November, dry and hot spring; November-April, wet summer.
In the summer there is a rainy season, so large water is observed in November. The length of Zambezi Km. The width of the channel in the average values of m, during periods of the flood, is spilled to 25 km. Depth in places m.
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