Victoria Falls Expected To Record Highest Flow

The Victoria Falls, which sit between Zambia and Zimbabwe, located on the Zambezi river, is the largest waterfall in the world at 1708 meters wide and 108 meters high. 

In December 2019 reports were made that the iconic African landmark had ‘dried to a trickle’ after the area’s worst drought in a century. The story now couldn’t be more different with April 2020’s flow registering at fifty four percent above the recorded long-term average. 

Things continue to look up in 2021 for the tourist attraction, with recorded flow expected to rise again.

Local travel guide Vusa Sibanda said in February of this year that he had never seen the Falls this full at that time of year, having worked in the area for the past 20 years. 

The Falls receive a large amount of water from a catchment area in Angola, in the upper Zambezi, which had not appeared when Sibanda made these comments. Commenting on this Sibanda said “I just can’t imagine how they will look then”.

The Victoria Falls Guide website states that this water mass only reaches the Falls from March to May, causing the falls to reach its highest peak within these months, after the rainy season has ended. At present the flow is almost three times higher than that recorded last season. 

With vaccine roll-out around the world, it is hoped that the surge in the falls will be mimicked by a surge in tourists within the area.