Kafue National Park is the largest park in Zambia (the size of
Wales) and one of the largest in the world. Kafue National Park
Kafue National Park is Zambia's oldest park and by far the
largest. It was proclaimed in 1950 and is spread over 22 400
square kilometres, making it one of the largest National Parks
in Africa. It is fed by three rivers, the Lufupa in the north-
west and the Lunga and Kafue in the north-east. The Lufupa River
floods in the summer, creating a large floodplain delta system
that attracts thousands of waterbirds. The Lunga and Kafue
rivers are wide and slow-flowing, banded by riverine forest.
Habitats in the Park are diverse, and include floodplains,
miombo woodland and dambos. It has good concentrations of plains
game and their predators as well as the largest species
diversity in Zambia, including animals that are rare or non-
existent in other southern African countries, such as
Lichtenstein's hartebeest, roan antelope, Defassa waterbuck and
oribi. Birdlife is spectacular, consisting of