Great Escarpment (Angola) Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
The Angolan section of Southern Africa's Great Escarpment is in Southwest Angola.
About Great Escarpment (Angola)
The Great Escarpment's northernmost reaches extend into Angola, but it is an enormous geographic feature throughout the whole of Southern Africa. It ranges southwards throughNamibia, cuts throughSouth Africa, and then extends north along the border ofMozambiqueandZimbabwe. It surrounds the Central Southern African Plateau (sitting at over 2,000 m above sea level), with steep mountains descending towards Angola's coastal regions. The Escarpment is old, having formed along with the formation of the Atlantic Ocean some 160 million years ago. The steep mountains you see today have been shaped by the gradual rising of the plateau over the past 20 million years, and the very slow accompanying process of erosion from coastal winds. The Escarpment is the zone right between Angola's central platea
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