Molopo River
The Molopo River is one of the main rivers in Southern Africa. It has a length of approximately 960 kilometres and a catchment area of 367,201 km2 with Botswana, Namibia and South Africa sharing roughly about a third of the basin each.
Molopo River
- Type: Intermittent stream
- Description: river in Southern Africa
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-28.51667° or 28° 31′ south
Longitude
20.21667° or 20° 13′ east
Elevation
460 metres (1,509 feet)
Open location code
5G32F6M8+8M
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Molopo River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Moloporivier”
- Arabic: “نهر مولوبو”
- Asturian: “Ríu Molopo”
- Belarusian: “Малопа”
- Bulgarian: “Молопо”
- Bulgarian: “Молопоривиер”
- Cebuano: “Moloporivier”
- Chinese: “莫洛波河”
- Czech: “Molopo”
- Dutch: “Molopo”
- Dutch: “Moloporivier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر مولوپو”
- French: “Molopo”
- Fulah: “Maayo Molopo”
- Georgian: “მოლოპო”
- German: “Molopo”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Molopo River”
- Hausa: “Kogin Molopo”
- Hindi: “मोलोपो नदी”
- Irish: “Abhainn Molopo”
- Italian: “Molopo”
- Japanese: “モロポ川”
- Lithuanian: “Molopo”
- Macedonian: “Молопо”
- Malayalam: “മൊലൊപൊ നദി”
- Mingrelian: “მოლოპო”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Molopo”
- Polish: “Molopo”
- Portuguese: “Rio Molopo”
- Russian: “Молопо”
- Serbian: “Молопо”
- Somali: “Webiga Molopo”
- South Azerbaijani: “مولوپو چایی”
- Spanish: “Río Molopo”
- Swahili: “Mto Molopo”
- Swati: “Umfula iMolopo”
- Swedish: “Molopo”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Molopo”
- Ukrainian: “Молопо”
- Venetian: “Fiume Molopo”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Molopo”
- Welsh: “Afon Molopo”
- Yiddish: “מאָלאָפּאָ טײַך”
- “nasin telo Molopo”
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Places to explore: Wabrand and Hartbeesvlak.
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Highlights: Bleskop and Spelonkop.
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