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| Mahalapye |
Name of city: Mahalapye.
Population : 41,316.
Elevation:
1,009 m (3,310 ft)
Location: Mahalapye, Central, Botswana.
Website: Official
site.
Mahalapye is a town located in the Central
District of Botswana. The town has about 41,000 inhabitants and is situated
along the main road between the capital Gaborone and the second largest city
Francistown. Mahalapye has a bus station, a railwaystation, a couple of hotels
and a market area with many shops and fastfood restaurants. It also has several
petrol stations, some open 24/7. Being situated on the edge of the Kalahari
desert it is quite dry, and the local waterways are dry except during the rainy
season. In recent times, it has become a convenient stop-over town for
travellers travelling to and from Gaborone.
This town is located on the Tropic of
Capricorn. Thus at approximately 13:11 hours on 21 December, or at solar noon
on Summer Solstice, the sun will be directly overhead at this site. To mark
this geographic feature there is a small monument just outside of town on the
23rd parallel, or 23 degrees South of the equator. At this time the sun will be
directly above this monument where the sun reaches its furthest point South. At
this point there will be no shadow on the monument.
Street
View of Mahalapye
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