Physical Geography of South Africa

Southern Africa is a environmentally rich region with a great physical geography. If you visited this region you may see oozy swamps, grassy plains, rivers, waterfalls, great deserts, and steep mountains and plateaus. Many of the people who have based their lives in this region have found great shelter on these plateaus. Some of the many other physical features of these lands are the Drakensberg and Inyanga mountain ranges. There are also a few rivers including the Okavango and Limpopo rivers. It is here that many of the wild life of this region such as lions, elephants, zebras, hippos, and crocodiles come to live there lives. There are also large forests that contain numerouse species of lemur on the island madagsacar. Rivers spread across the region have made sertain areas lush and livly. Other rivers that have dried up in the past have left large amounts of minerals in the desrts that are now there. Also many gold and diamond mines are spread around the region helping the countries in these regions economies. So overall Southern Africa is a very rich enviroment and is a very nice place to visit.