Bonde la Makgadikgadi linapatikana katikati ya savana kavu ya Botswana kaskazini mashariki. Ni kati ya maziwa yaliyokauka makubwa zaidi duniani. Chumvi iliyofunika ardhi yake kwa urefu na upana ndiyo mabaki ya Ziwa Makgadikgadi, lililowahi kuwa kubwa kuliko Uswisi, lakini lilikauka miaka elfu kumi kadhaa iliyopita. Homo sapiens aliwahi kuishi katika eneo hilo lenye rutuba na wingi wa uhai miaka 200,000 hivi iliyopita. Makgadikgadi is technically not a single pan, but many pans with sandy desert in between, the largest being the Sua (Sowa), Nwetwe and Nxai Pans. Chan, E. K. F., 2019. Human origins in a southern African palaeo-wetland and first migrations. Nature doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1714-1 Images from the Mkgadikgadi Pans Archived 24 Machi 2016 at the Wayback Machine.