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Many call the Pan-American Highway the longest road in the world, but there is a crucial detail in the form of the #Darién Gap which they are missing. Learn about the origins of the Ruta #Panamericana and the reasons why this mega-project hasn't been completed, and hopefully never will be.
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![East Africa and its Amazing Geography
In this episode of FactSpark, we are going to the eastern tip of the African continent and explore 5 astonishing geographical features of this region.
Along this journey through the eastern coast of Africa, we will take a look at the East African Rift System, the African Great Lakes, crazy precipitation patters in the center of East Africa, The Big 5 game of Africa and finally, the newest country on the world Stage, South Sudan.
For further readings on any of the topics mentioned in the Video, check out the sources below.
#EastAfrica #Geography #Nature
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:22 East African Rift
1:20 African Great Lakes
2:20 Precipitation Patterns
3:05 Big 5 Game
4:50 South Sudan
Sources:
[1] – 00:31 - https://www.britannica.com/place/East-African-Rift-System
[2] – 00:47 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rift
[3] – 01:03 - https://theconversation.com/africa-is-splitting-in-two-here-is-why-94056
[4] - 01:54 - https://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/lakevictoria.htm
[5] – 02:04 - https://eos.org/articles/dire-and-drier-future-for-lake-victoria#:~:text=%E2%80%9CHistorically%2C%20the%20level%20of%20Lake,in%20the%20past%20100%2C000%20years.
[6] – 02:36 – Climate Data supplied by “Deutscher Wetterdienst” (https://www.dwd.de/DE/Home/home_node.html)
[7] – 04:03 - https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-33694075
[8] – 04:27 - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/10/trophy-hunting-killing-saving-animals/
[9] – 05:10 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_violence_in_South_Sudan
[10] – 05:19 - https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/
[11] – 05:33 - https://wid.world/country/south-sudan/
Image sources:
Africa Continent Map by Vemaps.com
01:25 – Images of the African great lakes:
Lake Malawi by https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2019/06/tales-ferry-taking-trip-across-lake-malawi
Lake Tanganyika by https://twitter.com/emmanuelkagongo
Lake Victoria by https://www.zola.com/registry/collection-item/5e2315e49b83a6208878ed0e
01:37 - Graphs for Uganda and Malawi: https://knoema.com/atlas/Uganda/topics/Tourism/Travel-and-Tourism-Total-Contribution-to-GDP/Contribution-of-travel-and-tourism-to-GDP-percent-of-GDP
https://knoema.com/atlas/Malawi/topics/Tourism/Travel-and-Tourism-Total-Contribution-to-GDP/Contribution-of-travel-and-tourism-to-GDP-percent-of-GDP
Sudan Vectors:
https://freevectormaps.com/sudan/SD-EPS-02-6001?ref=atr
https://freevectormaps.com/south-sudan/SS-EPS-02-6001?ref=atr
02:04 - Bathymetry of Lake Victoria - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Vic_Bathy.jpg
05:54 - Portrait of South Sudanese Leaders:
Lam Akol: Twitter: @AkolLam
Salva Kiir Mayardit by Jenny Rockett - jenny.rockett@journalist.com
06:12 – SWENN: http://sswen.org/ East Africa and its Amazing Geography](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pHIccHf0n94/mqdefault.jpg)








