Zambia - Kalambo Falls

"Kalambo falls is not only known in Africa as the second deepest fall, but also as a cultural site rich in archaeological resource. It measures 221 metres deep and uninterrupted waterfalls. The falls is situated on the edge of the Tanganyika Rift Escarpment near the Southeastern corner of Lake Tanganyika at the altitude of 1150m and are about 35 kilometres north of Mbala District in northern Zambia. The site has a number of seasonal streams, which flow into Kalambo River. The prominent stream is the Kansama, which flows from the west and joins the Kalambo at the last 'bent' before the fall. The rocks (geology) are mostly sandstone, quartzite and shales belonging to the Katanga/Kundelungu system of the pre-Cambrian age through which have been introduced sandstones, dolorites and porphyries. The falls is located at an elevation of about 1390 metres above sea level on latitude 08º 35' South and 37º 14' East. The physiograghy of the Kalambo falls National Monument is dominated by undulating landscape of scarps and valleys."

Source: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List

Zambia - Zambezi Source

The Zambezi Source National Monument is located in Mwinilunga, one of the seven districts in the North-western Province of Zambia. The Source of the Zambezi River is itself located some 53 Kilometres on the Northwest of Mwinilunga in Mukangala area and the total area of the site is 36 hectors The site covers an area approximately 36.8 Hectares and was declared National Monument under Statutory Instrument No. 162 of 1983. The site is within the Zambezi Source National Forest No. P.80 and was also declared as a National Forest under Statutory Instrument No. 106 of 1984 giving the site double protection. This forest has been registered under Section C1 of the International Biological Programme and is one of the fifty (50) botanical reserves selected as the best preserved example of major vegetation.

Zambia - The Barotse Cultural Landscape

S 13 50 - E 22 45 S 16 40 - E 23 45 The Barotse landscape is a vast expanse of open land with a gently undulating topography incised with a network of canals that are denuded with the waters of the Zambezi when it bursts its banks at the height of the rainy season from October to May. It is also known as the Bulozi Plain, Lyondo or the Zambezi Floodplain and is one of Africa's great wetlands. It is designated as a possible Ramsar site on the basis of it being of high conservation value. The landscape is a flat plateau at an elevation ranging between 914 to 1218m tilting gently to the south. The floodplain stretches from the Zambezi's confluence with the Kabompo and Lungwebungu Rivers in the north, to a point about 230km south, above the Ngonye falls, south of Senanga. Along most of its length its width is over 30km, reaching 50km at the widest, just north of Mongu, main town of the plain, situated at its edge.

Zambia - Mwela Rock Paintings

Mwela Rock paintings are located about 5 Km from Kasama town and encompassing eastwards rock outcrops of Mwankole, Sumina, Mulundu, Fwambo, Changa Mwibwe and westwards 10 Km from the town Lwimbo rock outcrops. The paintings are associated with the Later Stone Age. The topography of the site is generally fairly undulating and deeper soils are more frequent, where as the central part is generally flat. The outcrops form part of the boundary of the extension of the main plateau areas. The site is also incised by abundant streams and extends over 100 Km2. More than 1000 paintings have been recorded in the rock outcrops, making Mwela Rock Paintings National Monument as one of the densest concentrations of rock art sites anywhere in Africa.

Zambia - Kalambo falls archaeological site (prehistoric settlement site)

The Kalambo falls prehistoric settlement is located about 30 kilometres North-West of Mbala district, Northern province. The site was excavated by professor John desmond Clark duringthe period 1956-1959. The excavations conducted in the lake-beds revealed exposed a stone age sequence extending from the early stone age through to the iron age, most of it stratified in living floors. The site was gazzetted a national monument under notice number 454 0f 1964. Like many other national monuments, the site is protected and managed under the national heritage conservation act, cap.23 of 1989 of the laws of Zambia.

Zambia - Dag Hammarskjoeld Memorial (Crash site)

Dag Hammarskjoeld Memorial site lies at a point 10 km from Ndola in the Ndola West Forest Reserve. The turn off is clearly sign posted off the Ndola-Kitwe dual carriage way. The memorial marks the site of the plane crash in which Dag the second and the then United Nation Secretary General (1953-1961) was killed on 17th September 1961 while on a mission attempting to bring peace to the Congo Republic (now Zaire). The site was declared a national monument under notice number 14 of 1970 as a historical landmark. In 1964 the Dag Hammarskjoeld Foundation Committee was formed to ensure that the memory of this world statesman lives forever in the country where he met his tragedy. At the Crash site a memorial garden was established with a cairn at the centre and a lawn around it with a belt of shrubs and trees on the outer circle. A museum was constructed and official opened at the site in 1981. The museum exhibits some remains of the tragic accident. The museum is also used for collecting materials and books on the life of Dag Hammarskjoeld and the role of the United Nations.

Zambia - Chirundu Fossil Forest

The Chirundu Fossil Forest National Monument site contains fossilised or petrified tree trunks of the Karoo age. It is situated in customary land of Chief Sikoongo of the Gwembe District in the Southern Province of Zambia and is 21 kilometres from the Chirundu border which forms a boundary with Zimbabwe. The site has superb fossilised tree trunks measuring up to 1.2m in diameter assigned to Dadyoxlon sp. and Rhexoxylon africanum which are difficult to distinguish with naked eyes. The main rock type here is sedimentary: red pebbly arkose (immature sandstones) formed during the Upper Karoo (Jurassic) times. These rocks show alternating coarse and fine sedimentary layers. The name Karoo is derived from the Karoo Basin of South Africa where similar rocks were surveyed.