The Karoo is a semi-desert region of South Africa.
Karoo may also refer to:
In earth sciences:
- Karoo-Ferrar, a major geologic province which mostly covers South Africa and Antarctica
- Karoo Supergroup, a stratigraphic unit in sub-Saharan Africa
- Karoo Ice Age, the second major ice age of the Phanerozoic Eon
The Karoo and Ferrar Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) are two large igneous provinces in Southern Africa and Antarctica respectively, collectively known as the Karoo-Ferrar, Gondwana, or Southeast African LIP, associated with the initial break-up of the Gondwana supercontinent at c.183Ma. Its flood basalt mostly covers South Africa and Antarctica but portions extend further into southern Africa and into South America, India, Australia and New Zealand.
The Karoo Supergroup is the most widespread stratigraphic unit in Africa south of the Kalahari Desert. The supergroup consists of a sequence of units, mostly of nonmarine origin, deposited between the Late Carboniferous and Early Jurassic, a period of about 120 million years.
In Astronomy:
- Karoo (crater), an impact crater on Asteroid 253 Mathilde
Karoo is an impact crater on the Asteroid 253 Mathilde, named for the Great Karoo Basin, a coal basin in South Africa. It is 33.4 kilometers in diameter and was the most prominent crater seen during NEAR Shoemaker's Flyby of the Asteroid.
Places:
- Karoo National Park, in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Karoo District Municipality, in the Northern Cape, South Africa
- Central Karoo District Municipality, in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality, in the Northern Cape, South Africa
The Karoo National Park, founded in 1979, is a wildlife reserve in the Great Karoo area of the Western Cape, South Africa near Beaufort West. This semi-desert area covers an area of 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi). The Nuweveld portion of the Great Escarpment runs through the Park. It is therefore partly in the Lower Karoo, at about 850 m above sea level, and partly in the Upper Karoo at over 1300 m altitude.
The Central Karoo District Municipality is a district municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC5.
Karoo Hoogland is an administrative area in the Namakwa District of Northern Cape in South Africa.
Birds
The Karoo chat is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is a common resident breeder in southwesternmost Angola, western Namibia and western South Africa. Its habitat is Karoo and desert scrub in the south, extending to the escarpment zone in the north.
The Karoo eremomela, also known as the yellow-rumped eremomela, is a species of bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but now placed in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Namibia and South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
The karoo korhaan, also known as karoo bustard, is a species of bird in the bustard family, Otididae, from Southern Africa. The species is sometimes placed in the genus Heterotetrax. It is the sister-species to Rüppell's korhaan, and the two species are sometimes considered conspecific. There are two subspecies, the nominate race, from south-eastern South Africa, and E. v. namaqua, from north-eastern South Africa and southern Namibia.
Companies
- Karoo (internet service provider), an Internet Service Provider in the United Kingdom
Literature
- Saul Karoo, main character and narrator in Karoo , posthumous novel by Steve Tesich, published in 1998.
Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the film Breaking Away.
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