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Mweru Wantipa National Park Geographic Profile, Regional Context, and Mapped Boundaries

This geographic profile details the physical scope and natural landscape of Mweru Wantipa National Park in Zambia's Northern Province. The data covers an expansive area of approximately 3,148 square kilometers, featuring complex terrain characterized by lakes, wetlands, and lowland woodlands within a tropical climate zone.

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Miombo woodlandsItigi-Sumbu thicketRare vegetationLake habitatZambia

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A wildlife-struggling protected area in Zambia's Northern Province guarding one of Africa's rarest thicket ecosystems

Mweru Wantipa National Park

Mweru Wantipa National Park is a protected area in the Northern Province of Zambia, named after Lake Mweru Wantipa, a large shallow lake nestled within the park's boundaries. The park sits in the Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands ecoregion, a vast tract of southern African savanna characterized by miombo woodland dominated by Brachystegia trees. However, the park is most distinctive for containing a rare and endangered vegetation type known as Itigi-Sumbu thicket, an almost impenetrable bush consisting of approximately a hundred plant species woven together so densely that traversal is virtually impossible. This thicket is known from only one other location in central Tanzania, making the Mweru-Wantipa area globally significant for this unique habitat. Once teeming with wildlife including lion, elephant, and black rhinoceros, the park has suffered severe wildlife depletion due to decades of inadequate management and protection, representing a cautionary tale of conservation failure in Africa's protected landscapes.

Location: Zambia
Park type: National park

Mweru Wantipa National Park Atlas

Location overview

Administrative placement within Zambia's Northern Province

Geographic Positioning of Mweru Wantipa National Park in Zambia

Mweru Wantipa National Park is situated entirely within the Northern Province of Zambia. As a terrestrial reserve, the protected area operates under single-country jurisdiction without transboundary or marine elements.

Countries: Zambia
Regions: Northern Province
Primary location: Northern Province
Geographic setting: Inland

Boundary and coordinates

Interactive protected-area geometry and calculated spatial metrics

Mweru Wantipa National Park Boundary Map and Spatial Extent

Mapped boundary outlines provide spatial context for the protected area layout. Accompanying metrics detail total area coverage, geographic center coordinates, and spatial extent spans.

Boundary area: 3,147.9 km²
Boundary perimeter: 336.4 km
Northernmost point: 8.4446° S
Southernmost point: 8.9774° S
Easternmost point: 29.9724° E
Westernmost point: 29.2128° E
Geographic centre: 8.7018° S, 29.5712° E
North–south span: 58.9 km
East–west span: 83.6 km

Mweru Wantipa National Park

Terrain and natural features

Recorded lowland terrain classifications and internal hydrological features

Mweru Wantipa National Park Terrain and Named Natural Features

Mweru Wantipa National Park classifies under lowland terrain, encompassing recorded lakes, rivers, islands, and wetlands within its boundaries. Linked feature cards supply names, types, measurements, and spatial relationships for each recorded natural feature.

Selected named natural features

Rivers

Mukubwe

Islands

Nknonta Island

Lakes

Lake Mweru Wantipa

Streams

Kanonje

Rivers

Mawe

Streams

Luntomfwe

Mweru Wantipa National Park Natural Features

Environmental setting

Tropical lowland habitat, woodland terrain, and major water systems

Mweru Wantipa National Park Environmental Classifications and Physical Setting

Recorded landscape features, habitat types, and climate zones combine to outline the physical setting of Mweru Wantipa National Park. Associated classification categories connect directly to related records across the wider park atlas.

Relief: Lowland
Climate: Tropical
Water: Major water bodies
Forest cover: Dense forest cover

Landscape features

Lakes · Woodland · Grassland

Habitat types

Tropical forest · Shrubland

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Ugalla River National Park Protected Area

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