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Three Rivers Proper is a suburb of Vereeniging, Gauteng, South Africa.. The suburb is bordered by Three Rivers East to the east and Three Rivers North to the north. Its northern boundary is formed by the R42 (General Hertzog Road), its western border is formed by the Klip River and its southern border is formed by the Sugarbush River and the Vaal River.
Vereeniging is situated in the southern part of Gauteng Province, and forms the southern portion of the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeninging (PWV) conurbation, and its neighbors are Vanderbijlpark (to the west), Three Rivers (east), Meyerton (north) and Sasolburg (south). The city is currently one of the most important industrial manufacturing ...
The rivers belonging to the Milanese hydrography (starting from the east and going counterclockwise) are the Lambro, the Naviglio della Martesana, the Seveso, the Olona-Lambro Meridionale axis, the Naviglio Grande and the Naviglio Pavese: together the five streams form the backbone of the entire water system that flows south-east.
Nearby is the Vaal Dam, from which the massive PWV megalopolis (Pretoria, Witwatersrand and Vereeniging) draws its water. [8] The PWV forms the urban heart of Gauteng province. The Witwatersrand is the name given to the area that comprises the Greater Johannesburg metropole and the gold-bearing reef along which gold was discovered in 1886.
Three Rivers East is home to many people working in the nearby Johannesburg due to easy access to the R59 Freeway linking the two cities. It is also home to some of Vereeniging's wealthiest families and together with the suburb of Three Rivers Proper contribute to the majority of the tax income for the local municipality. Many of these families ...
Three Rivers and St. Maurice, former electoral district in Canada; Three Rivers East, a suburb of Vereeniging, Gauteng, South Africa; Three Rivers Proper, a suburb of Vereeniging, Gauteng; Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, Yunan Province, China, within the drainage basins of the Yangtze, Mekong, and Salween Rivers
It is located in the former industrial heartland of Gauteng which created employment and wealth for Sebokeng, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging, Three Rivers and Sharpeville. [4] Its head offices are located at the corner of Klasie Havenga St and Frikkie Meyer Blvd, Vanderbijlpark. [5] The municipality was founded in 1999.
The three major rivers (Lambro, Seveso and Olona) flow in their natural beds, the Lambro and the Olona furthest from the city, with the Seveso being closer. Of the three, the only one that has not changed over the centuries is the Lambro, which still flows in its ancient natural bed, while the Olona and Seveso were diverted by the ancient Romans.