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The President of the Republic of Namibia is the head of state and the head of government of Namibia, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Namibia Defence Force, according to the Constitution of Namibia.
Chute spillway of Llyn Brianne dam in Wales A spillway is a structure used to provide the controlled release of flows from a dam or levee into a downstream area, typically the riverbed of the dammed river itself. In the United Kingdom, they may be known as overflow channels . Spillways ensure that the water does not overflow and damage or destroy the dam. Floodgates and fuse plugs may be designed into spillways to regulate water flow and reservoir level. Such a spillway can be used to regulate downstream flows – by releasing water in small amounts before the reservoir is full, operators can prevent sudden large releases that would happen if the dam were overtopped. Other uses of the term "spillway" include bypasses of dams or outlets of channels used during high water, and outlet channels carved through natural dams such as moraines. Water normally flows over a spillway only during flood periods – when the reservoir cannot hold the excess of water entering the reservoir ove...
For other uses, see America (disambiguation). The Americas Area 42,549,000 km 2 (16,428,000 sq mi) Population 1,001,559,000 (2016 estimate) Population density 23.5389551 23.53896/km 2 ( 60.965614 60.9656/sq mi) GDP (nominal) $24.6 trillion (2016 estimate) GDP per capita $25,229 (2015) [1] HDI 0.736 [2] Demonym American, [3] New Worlder [4] (see usage) Countries 35 Languages Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Haitian Creole, Quechua, Guaraní, Aymara, Nahuatl, Dutch and many others Time zones UTC−10:00 to UTC Largest cities Largest metropolitan areas Largest cities List 1.São Paulo 2.Lima 3.Mexico City 4.New York City 5.Bogotá 6.Rio de Janeiro 7.Santiago 8.Los Angeles 9.Caracas 10.Buenos Aires CIA political map of the Americas in Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection The Americas (also collectively called America ; French: Amérique , Spanish/Portuguese: América ) comprise the totality of the continents of North and Sou...