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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 ...
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A diagrammatic 400 km north–south cross-section through the southern portion of the country near Calitzdorp in the Little Karoo (approximately 21° 30' E), showing the relationship between the Cape Fold Mountains (and their geological structure) and the geology of the Little and Great Karoo, as well as the position of the Great Escarpment ...
About 180 million years ago, a mantle plume under southern Gondwana caused bulging of the continental crust in the area that would later become southern Africa. [2] Within 10–20 million years, rift valleys formed on either side of the central bulge and flooded to become the proto-Atlantic Ocean and proto-Indian Ocean more or less along the present southern African coastline and separating ...
English: Map of South Africa, with provinces, neighbouring countries and oceans labelled in English. Based on File:Map of South Africa with provincial borders.svg.
B ^ The Limpopo River Basin is not wholly located within South Africa, it straddles four countries, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. [ 1 ] C ^ The Tugela and Vaal drainage basins are linked with the Tugela-Vaal Water Project , an interbasin transfer scheme across the Drakensberg watershed that supplies additional water to the ...
Great Fish River - South Africa; Great Kei River - South Africa; Black Kei River - South Africa; White Kei River - South Africa; Groot River(s) - South Africa. Groot River (Western Cape) Groot River (Southern Cape) Groot River (Eastern Cape) another name for the Orange River - South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia; Gamtoos River - South Africa; Ihosy ...
Hawequa Mountains - Khoi word meaning "the man in the mountain" Western Cape: North of the Du Toitskloof Range. Part of the Cape Fold Belt System Hex River Mountains: Witch River Mountains: Western Cape: Part of the Cape Fold Belt system Hottentots-Holland (Hottentot: old name for Khoi aboriginal inhabitants) Western Cape: 1,590 m (5,220 ft)