The Barotse Cultural Landscape is situated on the Zambezi River floodplain, and demonstrates how the people of Barotseland have adapted to their environment through the use of canals, weirs, and land reclamation. The landscape has been inhabited by the Lozi, or Barotse, people continuously since the early 1800’s, and contains villages, fields, and sacred burial grounds. Each year during the Kuomboka ceremony, the Litunga, king of the Lozi people, sails from the Lealui Royal Palace on the floodplains to the Limulunga compound in the highlands at the start of the flood season.
Full screen map of Barotse Plains (Nominated - Zambia)
Nov. 6, 2022
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— Process to declare Zambia’s Barotse Plains a World Heritage Site halted
Dec. 3, 2021
lusakatimes.com
— Zambia halts campaign to have plains listed as UNESCO World Heritage site
April 30, 2015
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— Zambian government has been accused of pressuring the Barotse Royal Establishment (BRE) and the Litunga of Barotseland to support the Barotse Plains bid
This is an area whose landscape is an amazing wilderness..the rich cultural heritage of the Lozi people is unique to barotse flood plain..You find burial sites dating to the 1800s..sharing borders with Namibia and Angola barotseland is full is flora and fauna with possibiliy of endemism
