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The nature and distribution of wetlands in South Africa reflect the semi-arid p climate and the disparate seasonal and spatial distribution of precipitation (Figs. 32 and 33). Sixty-five percent of the country, the central and western Y sector, receives less than 500 mm of rain annually and twenty-one percent receives less than 200 mm. Only a comparatively narrow region along the eastern and southern coastline is moderately well watered (Department of Water Affairs 1986).
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Breen, C.M., Heeg, J., Seaman, M. (1993). South Africa. In: Whigham, D.F., Dykyjová, D., Hejný, S. (eds) Wetlands of the world: Inventory, ecology and management Volume I. Handbook of vegetation science, vol 15-2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8212-4_4
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