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    east by the Nama Karoo, which has more extreme temperatures and variable rainfall, and on the north by the Namib Desert. Succulent Karoo vegetation types...
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    The Karoo (/kəˈruə/ kə-ROO-ə; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ǃ’Aukarob "Hardveld") is a semi-desert natural...
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    number of desert ecoregions that have a high degree of biodiversity and endemism: The Nama Karoo of Namibia has the world's richest desert fauna. The...
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    The Karoo National Park is a wildlife reserve in the Great Karoo area of the Western Cape, South Africa near Beaufort West. This semi-desert area covers...
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    Gwarrieveld (AT 55) Willowmore Gwarrieveld (AT 58) 29 Nama Karoo and desert vegetation types, codes NK and D: Albany Broken Veld (NKl 4) Blouputs Karroid Thornveld...
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    Namib (redirect from Namib desert)
    South African Karoo semi-desert. Southern Namib (between Lüderitz and the Kuiseb River) comprises a vast dune sea with some of the tallest and most spectacular...
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    as the Karoo padloper or Boulenger's cape tortoise, is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae. The species is endemic to the Nama Karoo Region...
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  • Zambezian and mopane woodlands Etosha Pan halophytics Zambezian flooded grasslands Kalahari xeric savanna Kaokoveld desert Nama Karoo Namib desert Namibian...
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  • 65 Succulent Karoo vegetation types, code SK; 54 Albany Thicket and Strandveld vegetation types, codes AT and FS; 29 Nama Karoo and desert vegetation types...
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    transitional zone between the coastal Succulent Karoo ecoregion in the west, and the drier Nama Karoo to the east. Rainfall in the Richtersveld varies...
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