![]() The geologic processes behind the formation of the basin are not well understood, nevertheless, the lake certainly had the Kubu and Kukome islands that are actually igneous rock “islands” and they can be found in the Sua Pan.Īs the Makgadikgadi is salty desert, there is not much of a rich flora, which is limited to only a thin layer of blue-green algae, nonetheless, the pans are circled by grassland which then transforms into savanna. In the past, there was the Makgadikgadi Lake which shrank, and what has been left is just the relicts which we see nowadays as salt flats. The most important ones are the bigger Ntwetwe Pan, and the somewhat smaller Sua Pan. ![]() The Makgadikgadi Pan, also known as Botswana Salt Flats, is a salt pan that is situated in the middle of the dry savanna that can be found in the central region of the Republic of Botswana.īeing one of the largest salt flats in the world, the salt pan is also part of the Makgadikgadi Pan National Park, and as it lies to the southeast of the Okavango Delta it is surrounded by the Kalahari Desert, which makes it technically not a single pan but many pans with sandy desert in between.ĭeclared as a national park in 1992, the Makgadikgadi Pan covers an area of more than 10,000 square km (3,861 square mi), where each of the pans differ in size with some being enormous, while others are the size of a small duck-pond.
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