Sudanian Savanna

Sudanian Savanna

The Sudanian Savanna is a broad belt of tropical savanna that runs east and west across the African continent, from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Ethiopian Highlands in the east. The Sahel, a belt of drier grasslands and acacia savannas, lies to the north, between the Sudanian Savanna and the Sahara Desert. To the south the forest-savanna mosaic is a transition zone between the Sudanian Savanna and the Guinean and Congolian forests that lie nearer the equator.

The WWF divides the Sudanian Savanna into two ecoregions, separated by the Cameroon Highlands. The West Sudanian savanna runs from the Atlantic Ocean to eastern Nigeria, and the East Sudanian savanna runs from the Cameroon Highlands east to the Ethiopian Highlands.

The Sudanian Savanna is one of the three distinct physiographic provinces of the larger African massive division. Physiography divides this province into three distinct physiographic sections, the Niger Basin, the Lake Chad Basin, and the Middle Nile Basin.

References and external links

* [http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0705_full.html East Sudanian Savanna (WWF)]
* [http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0722_full.html West Sudanian Savanna (WWF)]

ee also

*Sudan (region)


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