In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Tugela River is referenced by 208 other articles, and connects out to list of rivers of South America, Mooi River and South Africa.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NL, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Rivers of KwaZulu-Natal, Tugela River and Use South African English from July 2024.
Its subject is documented across 46 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Native name
- Thukela
- Country
- South Africa
- Province
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Towns
- Bergville , Colenso
- Location
- Drakensberg
- Coordinates
- 28°45′00″S 28°53′45″E / 28.75000°S 28.89583°E / -28.75000; 28.89583
- Mouth
- Indian Ocean
- Length
- 560 km (350 mi)
- Basin size
- 29,100 km (11,200 sq mi)
- Left
- Buffalo River
- Right
- Mooi River
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Continent
- Africa
- Image
- Tugela Falls.jpg
- Length
- 520
Show 6 more facts
- discharge
- 170.0
- Commons category
- Tugela River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Indian Ocean
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- tributary
- Bloukrans River
- watershed area
- 29100
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tugela River (Zulu: Thukela; Afrikaans: Tugelarivier) is the largest river in KwaZulu, South Africa. With a total length of 560 km (350 mi), and a drop of 1 370 metres in the lower 480 km, it is one of the most important rivers of the country.
The river originates in Mont-aux-Sources of the of two other major South African rivers, the Orange and the Caledon River. From the Drakensberg range, the Tugela follows a 560 km (350 mi) route through the KwaZulu-Natal midlands before flowing into the Indian Ocean. The total catchment area is approximately 29,100 km (11,200 mi). Land uses in the catchment are mainly rural subsistence farming and commercial forestry.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tugela River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations