List of rivers of South Africa

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 name). The Zulu word amanzi (water) also forms part of some river names.

The Afrikaans term spruit (compare spring) often labels small rivers.

List

• A ^{^} Drainage basin code assigned by the Department of Water Affairs (South Africa), a complete list is available at Drainage basins of South Africa

Gallery

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  Topographic map of South Africa.
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  Course and watershed of the Orange River with topography shading and political boundaries.
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  Grootrivier in Nature's Valley, stained a tea colour by plant tannins
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  Amanzimtoti River at Ilanda Wilds
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  Amanzimtoti River at Ilanda Wilds
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  Amanzimtoti Lagoon

See also

• List of reservoirs and dams in South Africa
• Water Management Areas
• Estuaries in South Africa
• List of lakes in South Africa
• Lagoons of South Africa
• List of Bays of South Africa
• Drainage basins of South Africa

References

• Dep. of Water Affairs; Republic of South Africa

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rivers of South Africa.

• Hydrology
• Map where one can zoom into a drainage system
• GIS data and map of all rivers of South Africa
• FROC - Reference frequency of occurrence of fish species in South Africa