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| Abstract
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Shapefile of inland water bodies in Africa. This dataset originates from the Digital Chart of the World 1:1000000, 1998.
The waterbodies for Africa have been characterized (as lake, lagoon, reservoir etc.) and named (if the names were easily
available). The data layer presented contains all the waterbodies that had a name and were not characterized as river.
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| Purpose
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The dataset has been published in the framework of the AQUASTAT - programme of the Land and Water Division of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, as part of FAO Land and Water Digital Media Series #13: "Atlas of Water Resources
and Irrigation in Africa".
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| Status
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Completed: Production of the data has been completed
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| Descriptive keywords
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water resources , inland water , surf. water bodies , lakes , AQUASTAT , AWRD , fishery , hydrology , AQUAMAPS_rivers
(theme).
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| Descriptive keywords
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Africa (place). |
| Spatial representation type
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Vector: Vector data is used to represent geographic data
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| Language
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English |
| Character set
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UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
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| Supplemental Information
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The dataset consists of the following information: - GIS generated codes (FID, AF_WTR_ID);- Area of the waterbody (SQKM);-
Name of waterbody (NAME_OF_WA);- Type of waterbody (TYP_OF_WA).
For a wider distribution and to support other projects at FAO this map is also distributed in a DVD as part of a publication
entitled: "Jenness, J.; Dooley, J.; Aguilar-Manjarrez, J.; Riva, C. African Water Resource Database. GIS-based tools for
inland aquatic resource management. 2. Technical manual and workbook. CIFA Technical Paper. No. 33, Part 2. Rome, FAO. 2007.
308 p."
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