This exciting national park is 25km south of Divundu. It was first declared a conservation area in 1983 and opened to the public in 1986. It was only officially proclaimed in 1989. Ownership and responsibility for the reserve was given to the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) after Namibian Independence in 1990. In 2007 Mahango National Park (formerly Caprivi Game Reserve) which is the protected area between the Okavango and Kwando Rivers.

The river has floating mats of Echinochloa grasses (Hippo Grass), and is flanked by wetlands of Papyrus and Phragmites swamps and flooded grassland. The banks are crowded with riverine forest and woodland. In the north is the Mahango Omuramba and in the south is the Thinderevu Omuramba. In between are vegetated dunes and grasslands holding extensive dry woodlands.