 Description: The Central-African Plateau region in Zambia consists of three separate plateaux or relief divisions: the Southern Plateau (or low veld) of less than 900m above sea level, the Eastern/Central Plateau (or middle veld) of between 900 and 1200m elevation, and the Northern/Northwestern Plateau with elevations of up to 1600 metres (Zambian Education Atlas, pp 9-10).
It is the latter, the high veld, that interests us most because this northern plateau drops off towards our river valleys in dramatic scarps. The plateau soils are mostly ferralitic sandveld or clay soils (where agriculture is poor) with extensive moors and swamplands (rainfall of more than 1500mm per annum) and good savanna woodland coverage (miombo woods and riverine forests) (Drescher, p.54).
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