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Great Karoo Description
The Great Karoo (or Karoo tout court) is a predominantly level semi-arid region with a scanty vegetation cover and a number of precipitous hills up to 2,000m/6,560ft in height. With an area of around 500,000sq.km/193,000sq.mi, it occupies a third of the total area of South Africa. The Karoo begins in the south (just north of the Garden Route) as the Little Karoo, which then becomes the Great Karoo, followed, far to the north, by the Upper Karoo, which again, on the border with Namibia and Botswana, is continued by the Kalahari.

The first inhabitants were nomadic Bushmen, who found in the Karoo ample grazing for their flocks and herds as well as for wild animals. They also gave the region its name, from a term in their language
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