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Neste país encontramos a subespécie girafa-sul-africana!
Localização do país – Sem saída para o mar, Botsuana está localizado em uma região semi-árida no sul da África.
Características – planalto de altitude média 1.000 m (maior parte); Deserto de Kalahari (S); pântanos e depressões salinas (N).
Divisão administrativa – 11 distritos.
Cidades com as principais agências postais – Bobonong, Francistown, Gaborone, Ghanzi, Jwaneng, Kanye/Mmasekou, Kasane, Letlhakeng, Lobatse (segundo selo), Mahalapye, Maun (cidade que mais cresce; de onde todos partem para os safáris no delta), Mochudi, Molepolole, Orapa (cidade com grande exploração de diamantes nos últimos tempos), Palapye, Selebi Phikwe e Serowe.
Outras cidades – Bokspits, Khakhea, Mamuno, Nata, Nokaneng, Rakops, Sehithwa, Seruli, Tsau, Werda... (outras cidades no cartão-postal pré-pago)
A maior parte de seu território fica no Deserto de Kalahari e está sujeita a secas que podem durar anos. Graças à abundância de animais selvagens, como girafas, elefantes e búfalos, e à boa administração das reservas de proteção da natureza, o país atrai muitos turistas.
The Government of Botswana has set aside thousands of square kilometres of national territory as protected areas (around 17% of the country area) and wildlife management areas (another 20% of the country).
O Deserto de Kalahari tem uma extensão de 930.000km², localizado no sudoeste da África, abrange a África do Sul, Botsuana e Namíbia. Em 1949, o explorador inglês David Livingstone realiza a primeira travessia do deserto.
29/09/2006 – “Aniversário de 40 Anos da Independência 1966-2006”. Os 4 selos mostram: P1.10 (Primary & Secondary Roads), P2.60 (Population Distribution), P4.10 (Mines and Coal Resources) e P4.90 (National Parks and Game Reserves). Bloco com valor facial de P12.70. NT
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Maiores áreas de proteção da vida selvagem:
– Chobe National Park e Chobe River (norte)
– Nxai Pan National Park (norte)
– Moremi Game Reserve, no Delta do Okavango (norte), localizada dentro da Área de Conservação 4 Fronteiras: Four Corners Heartland (Botsuana, Namíbia, Zâmbia e Zimbábue)
– Makgadikgadi Pans Game Reserve (centro-leste; no final desta página)
– Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Deserto; segunda maior área de proteção no mundo)
– Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (fronteira entre Botsuana, África do Sul e Namíbia)
– Khutse Game Reserve
– Mabuasehube Game Reserve
– Tuli Block Game Reserve, dentro da área Transfronteir Park (África do Sul, Botsuana e Zimbábue)
– Gemsbok National Park (sul), parque de proteção do Orix
In addition, the government carefully monitors 42 Controlled Hunting Areas, where hunters may shoot small quantities of game. Authorities issue only a limited number of shooting permits each year...
Emissões filatélicas:
2000/2001: Série “Wetlands
I – Okavango Delta”
12/12/2001: Série “Wetlands II
– Chobe River”
18/12/2002: Série “Wetlands III – Makgadikgadi Pans”
23/12/2003: Série “Wetlands IV – Limpopo River”
Rio Limpopo (0,35), Delta do Okavango (1,00) e os dois últimos rio Chobe.
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Aproximadamente, 164 espécies de mamíferos são encontrados em Botsuana...
Incluindo: vervet monkey, chacma baboon, wild dog, bat-eared fox, black-backed jackal, large-spotted genet, small-spotted genet, mongoose, spotted hiena, brown hiena, leão, leopardo, guepardo, aardvark, zebra de Burchell, square-lipped (white) rinoceronte, warthog, girafa, common duiker, klipspringer, springbok, steenbok, impala, gnu-azul, tsessebe, gemsbok, sable antílope, roan antílope, reedbuck, waterbuck, lechwe, bushbuck, kudu, eland, búfalo, hipopótamo, elefante.
Habitat: Dry savanna woodland. Giraffe is widely distributed throughout the northern and central parts of Botswana as far south as Khutse Game Reserve e Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
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Botswana is one of the finest tourist destinations on the African continent. The Okavango, which originates in the uplands of Angola to the north-west, flows into and then spreads over the sandy spaces of the Kalahari to form an immense and wondrous inland delta of lagoon and labyrinthine channel, palm-fringed island and fertile floodplain. A number of safari lodges and camps have been established in and around this watery wilderness.
This wilderness and the nearby game-rich Moremi Game Reserve and Chobe National Park reserves, offer the visitors the best of several worlds, appealing variously to the game-viewer and bird-watcher, the hunter and the sporting fisherman, the explorer of hidden places and the lover of Africa in its loveliest and least spoilt state.
From the calcrete floors and ancient baobabs of the Makgadikgadi Pans to the savannah grasslands of Chobe National Park and the mophane woodland of the Tuli Block, there is a wide variety of wildlife in Botswana.
However it is in the Okavango Delta and Moremi Game Reserve that visitors will find unforgettable beauty. In the lush indigenous forests of the delta and its islands, and along the floodplains spawned by this great marriage of water and sand, more than 400 species of birds flourish.
On the mainland and among the islands in the delta, lions, elephants, hyenas, wild dog, buffalo, hippo and crocodiles congregate with a teeming variety of antelope and other smaller animals - warthog, mongoose, spotted genets, monkeys, bushbabies and tree squirrels.
Interspersed throughout Botswana are rich collections of historical and cultural heritage. Unique San rock art, geological wonders, and traditional art are additional attractions located in various parts of the country.
Experience of a tourist is further enhanced by the friendly, hospitable and warm-hearted people of Botswana.
Botswana offers a truly unique African experience untouched by the more destructive pressures of encroaching civilisation, presenting a wonderful wilderness for the enjoyment of all who seek to reach just that little bit further into Africa for a holiday of a lifetime.
PARKS AND RESERVES RESERVATION OFFICES
It is advisable to make reservations well in advance. Such reservations can be made through either of the two reservations offices:
Parks and Reserves Reservation Office
P.O. Box 20364, Boseja, Maun, Botswana
Location: Next to Police station in Maun
Parks and Reserves Reservations Office
P.O. Box 131, Gaborone, Botswana - Email: parks.reservations.gaborone@gov.bw
Location: in the Government Enclave of Gaborone, opposite the end of Queens Road
Opening hours: 7:30am - 4:30pm, closing for lunch from 12:45pm to 1:45pm (Monday to Saturday) and closing at 12 noon on Sundays. Public holidays are normal working hours. Closed only on the 25th December.
Please note: All payments made at the Park or Reserve Entrance gates must be in Pula cash. Entry fees for the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park are different from the above mentioned. However, SA Rands, US Dollars and GB Pound will be accepted by entry points and reservations as from 01/10/2001.
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Makgadikgadi Pans Game Reserve
Localizada na região centro-leste do país (próxima à cidade de Francistown), cobre 12.000 quilômetros quadrados, the salt pans of the Makgadikgadi e Nxai impact greatly on Botswana's phisical appearance.
The two pans making up the Makgadikgadi region the Ntwetwe and the Sowa, are the largest of their kind in the world. Most of the year these pans are bone dry, but when the summer rains come, this salty wildeness undergoes a transformation.
Countless waterbirds, including pelicans and enormous flocks of flamingos are drawn to the shallow sheets of water.
Nata Bird Sanctuary on the Sua Pan.
This is the eastern pan of the Makgadikgadi Pans and a section of it has been
turned into a bird sanctuary. On the far side of this part of the pan we could
see hundreds of thousands of Flamingoes, but in order to get there meant quite
a deviation from our plan.
Abaixo, selo emitido em 1980: “World Tourism Conference”, ocorrida em Manila entre setembro e outubro de 1980. Com valor facial de 5t (centavos de pula), o selo mostra “Game watching – Makgadikgadi Pans”. NT
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18/12/2002 – Série de 5 valores: “Wetlands III – Makgadikgadi Pans”. Artista: Gavin Ryan (Austrália). Impresso: Joh Enschede Security Printers, Holanda. Valores faciais: Aardwolf (55t), gnu (P1,10), zebra (P2,50), flamingo (P2,75) e pelicano (P3,30). JT
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Parque Nacional Nxai (Nxai Pan National Park)
Localizado no norte de Botsuana, com 2.590 quilômetros quadrados de reserva, is mainly forest and savanna woodland and large areas of open grassland. Aqui têm girafas!
There are two Pans – Nxai (a fossil lake bed about 15 klm. wide and covered with short grass), e Kgama-Kgama Pan.
Acomodações: Two small camping sites with ablution facilities and water. Precaução: Malaria. When camping beware of dangerous animals. Camping sites are not fenced.
Nota: Fotos de girafas no Chobe e Mafiikeng Park by Marcya...
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Última atualização: 08/05/2009. |
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