Lower Zambezi National Park
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The Lower Zambezi National Park lies on the north bank of the Zambezi River in south eastern Zambia. It gently slopes from the Zambezi Escarpment down to the river, straddling two main woodland savannah ecoregions distinguished by the dominant types of tree, Miombo and Mopane: Southern Miombo woodlands on higher ground in the north, and Zambezian and Mopane woodlands on lower slopes in the south. At the edge of the river is floodplain habitat.
Most large mammals in the national park congregate on the floodplain, including buffalo, elephants, lions, leopards and many antelope, crocodiles and hippopotamuses. There are also numerous species of birds, but the black rhinoceroses died out around the time the national park was declared, in 1983.
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