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Komatipoort is a town situated at the confluence of the Crocodile and Komati Rivers in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town is 8 km from the Crocodile Bridge Gate into the Kruger National Park , just 3 km from the Mozambique border and 65 km from the Eswatini border.
The R571 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects the Kruger National Park with the Mananga border post with Eswatini via Komatipoort. [ 1 ] Regional route R571
The N4 road westbound near Middelburg, Mpumalanga The N4 road eastbound at the interchange with the R556 road near Modderspruit in North West.. The N4 is a national route in South Africa that runs from Skilpadshek on the Botswana border, past Rustenburg, Pretoria, eMalahleni and Mbombela, to Komatipoort on the Mozambique border.
Kruger National Park (Afrikaans: [ˈkry.(j)ər]) is a South African national park and one of the largest game reserves in Africa.It covers an area of 19,623 km 2 (7,576 sq mi) in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 km (220 mi) from north to south and 65 km (40 mi) from east to west.
It then flows eastwards past Nelspruit and joins the Komati River at Komatipoort. [1] The Crocodile River in Mpumalanga has a catchment area of 10,446 km 2. Upstream it is a popular trout fishing place. [2] It flows through the Nelspruit industrial area, the Lowveld agricultural area and borders the Kruger National Park. The decrease in the ...
The road bridge at Crocodile Bridge was originally created as a pontoon crossing to allow ranger access to the park from Komatipoort. In the 1920s, a road was added connecting Crocodile Bridge to what is now the Lower Sabie rest camp. In 1927, the board of the park asked South African Railways to connect the Selati Railway across the Crocodile ...
Many lodges and private houses are found inside the Park. The holiday town is a unique project, in that a large part of the park was left natural. Besides the boundary with Lionspruit, there are no internal fences and the vegetation remains in an original state. Marloth Park is separated by a boundary fence and by the Crocodile River from ...
Mpumalanga was formed in 1994, when the area that was the Eastern Transvaal was merged with the former bantustans KaNgwane, KwaNdebele and parts of Lebowa and Gazankulu. Although the contemporary borders of the province were only formed at the end of apartheid , the region and its surroundings have a history that extends back thousands of years.