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A map showing South Africa's cities, main towns, selected villages, rivers, and its highest peak. This is a list of rivers in South Africa. It is quite common to find the Afrikaans word -rivier as part of the name. Another common suffix is "-kamma", from the Khoisan term for "river" [1] (often tautologically the English term "river" is added to ...
The Zambezi(also spelled Zambezeand Zambesi) is the fourth-longestriverin Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Oceanfrom Africa. Its drainage basincovers 1,390,000 km2(540,000 sq mi),[1][2]slightly less than half of the Nile's.
The river is approximately 1,750 km (1,090 mi) long, with a drainage basin of 415,000 km 2 (160,000 sq mi) in size. The mean discharge measured over a year is 170 m 3 /s (6,000 cu ft/s) to 313 m 3 /s (11,100 cu ft/s) at its mouth. [3] [1] The Limpopo is the second largest African river that drains to the Indian Ocean, after the Zambezi River.
Kwando - Namibia, also known as Linyanti and Chobe in places. Limpopo - Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana. Luangwa River - Zambia. Mania River - Madagascar. Maputo River - South Africa, Eswatini, Mozambique. Molopo - Botswana, South Africa. Mooi River (Tugela) - South Africa. Mthatha River - South Africa.
The Orange River (from Afrikaans / Dutch: Oranjerivier) is a river in Southern Africa. It is the longest river in South Africa. With a total length of 2,432 km (1,511 mi), the Orange River Basin extends from Lesotho into South Africa and Namibia to the north. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South ...
South Africa. The Karoo ( / kəˈruə / kə-ROO-ə; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ǃ’Aukarob "Hard veld " [2] [3]) is a semi- desert natural region of South Africa. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo is available, so its extent is also not precisely defined.
Geography of South Africa. / 29.000°S 24.000°E / -29.000; 24.000. South Africa occupies the southern tip of Africa, its coastline stretching more than 2,850 kilometres (1,770 miles) from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic (western) coast southwards around the tip of Africa and then northeast to the border with Mozambique ...
Berg River. / 32.767°S 18.150°E / -32.767; 18.150. The Berg River (also called Great Berg River or in Afrikaans: Bergrivier) is a river located just north of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is approximately 294 km (183 mi) long with a catchment area of 7,715 km 2 (2979 mi 2) and empties into the Atlantic Ocean.