The Ngonye Falls[1][2] or Sioma Falls is a waterfall on the Zambezi river in Western province Zambia, near the town of Sioma and a few hundred kilometres upstream from the Victoria Falls. Situated in the southern part of Barotseland, the falls are a day's journey by car from the capital, Lusaka. Their inaccessibility makes them much less known than Victoria Falls. The Ngonye Falls Community Partnership Park is located at the falls.
The falls are formed by the erosion of a hard sandstone layer to form the drop.[3] Their height is only 10–25 meters (33–82 ft), but the width of the falls is impressive. They form a broad crescent, interrupted by rocky outcrops.
Upstream from the falls, the river is broad and shallow as it flows across Kalahari sands, but below the falls extensive white water rapids exist, as the river is hemmed in by gorges cut into sandstone rock.
The NgonyeFalls or Sioma Falls is a waterfall on the Zambezi river in Western province Zambia, near the town of Sioma and a few hundred kilometres upstream...
noted feature is Victoria Falls. Its other falls include the Chavuma Falls at the border between Zambia and Angola, and NgonyeFalls near Sioma in western...
Livingstone had previously been impressed by the NgonyeFalls further upstream, but found the new falls much more impressive, and gave them their English...
by height List of waterfalls by type Orders of magnitude (power) "Inga Falls, Congo, Democratic Republic of the – World Waterfall Database". www.worldwaterfalldatabase...
The NgonyeFalls Power Station, is a planned hydroelectric power station across the Zambezi River in Zambia. The power station will have maximum generating...
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sands, about five hundred kilometres across. To the south around the NgonyeFalls harder rock is found at the surface and has resisted the river's tendency...
(75 mi) from Sioma Ngwezi National Park and about 80 km (50 mi) from NgonyeFalls. It has a hotel and serves as a base for fishing tours by boat. A tall...
Livingstone to Sesheke, onwards past the NgonyeFalls at Sioma, where an attempt was made in about 1905 to bypass the Falls with a canal. Barges were unloaded...
available to pull barges 5 km over land around the NgonyeFalls. Upper Zambezi between NgonyeFalls and the Nyamboma Rapids, and especially Mongu to Kalabo...
residents to act as porters for canoes attempting to get around the nearby NgonyeFalls. Expansion of the town started in 1957 when the catholic Irish Capuchin...
along nearby stretches of the Zambezi (a fishing resort, and a lodge at NgonyeFalls), and in the Caprivi Strip. The recently opened Trans–Caprivi Highway...
France. Retrieved 28 March 2022. ESI Africa (2 May 2019). "Zambia: 34MW Ngonye solar PV plant comes online". ESI-Africa.com. Rondebosch, South Africa....
54MW Bangweulu Solar Power Station was commissioned. In May 2019, the 34MW Ngonye Solar Power Station was commissioned. In July 2022, the local National utility...
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