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Popa Falls Resort Namibia (233 words) |
 | Popa Falls is a misnomer as the 'falls' are really only a series of rapids on the Okavango river. |
| The Popa Falls Resort is situated on the banks of the mighty Kavango River at the last rapids before the river enters Botswana and the Okavango Delta. |
| Due to ists situation the area around Popa Falls is popular with self drivers who are including a visit to the Okavango Delta on their holiday in Namibia. |
| Okavango Campaign (502 words) |
| The Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy is studying the feasibility of a 30-megawatt (MW) hydropower dam on the Okavango River at Popa Falls, less than 50 kilometers upstream from the Okavango Delta in Botswana, according to the Namibian newspaper The Windhoek Observer (9 September 2000). |
| Popa Falls is the centerpiece of the Caprivi Game Park, which is slated to become the Bwabwata National Park, and provides habitat to several herds of hippo and many elephant and other wildlife that come to the river for water and vegetation. |
| Thousands of tourists visit Popa Falls each year and support several lodges in the area, including one that is run by a community of indigenous Barakwena people, and bring scarce income to this undeveloped corner of the country. |
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