Kafue is at the
south-eastern foot of a range of granite hills rising 200 m and extending over
an area of about 250 km², and occupies a shelf of land between the hills
and the river, just high enough to avoid its annual flood. The town extends
along some shallow valleys between the hills. A 400 m wide strip of small farms
and gardens separates the town from a bend of the river which is about 300 m
wide in the dry season and 1.3 km wide in the rainy season, sometimes
inundating a floodplain 10 km wide on the opposite bank, which
consequently is
