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Katse Dam and the Roof of the Lesotho Highlands
Thaba-Tseka District: History & Culture
Thaba-Tseka is Lesotho’s most mountainous district, centred on an administrative town built at 2,200m to open up the remote eastern highlands. It is dominated by the Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Katse Dam, completed in 1996, holds the record as Africa’s highest-elevation dam at 1,993m, and its reservoir flooded a valley whose plants were rescued into the Katse Botanical Garden. West of the dam, beyond the Mafika-Lisiu Pass, Bokong Nature Reserve protects Afro-alpine wetland at 2,800 to 3,200m, where the Lepaqoa waterfall freezes solid most winters.
Heritage & Landmarks
Africa's highest-elevation dam, 1,993m, on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
Rescued plant species from the valley the Katse reservoir flooded
2,800–3,200m reserve whose Lepaqoa waterfall freezes into an ice column
The district's only town, an administrative centre at 2,200m
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