Maputo River
The Maputo River, also called Great Usutu River, Lusutfu River, or Suthu River, is a river in South Africa, Eswatini, and Mozambique. The name Suthu refers to Basotho people who lived near the source of the river, but were attacked and displaced by the Swazis.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Mozambique
- Also known as: “Great Usutu River”, “Maputa”, “Maputa River”, “Rio Suto”, “Rio Usutu”, “Umtuli River”, and “Usutu River”
Maputo River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Maputo River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Maputo River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Maputorivier”
- Arabic: “نهر مابوتو”
- Armenian: “Մապուտո գետ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Maputo”
- Basque: “Maputo (ibaia)”
- Basque: “Maputo”
- Bulgarian: “Лусутфу”
- Catalan: “Lusuftu”
- Catalan: “Riu Maputo”
- Catalan: “Usutu”
- Cebuano: “Lusutfu”
- Chinese: “馬普托河”
- Chinese: “马普托河”
- Croatian: “Maputo (rijeka)”
- Croatian: “Maputo”
- Finnish: “Maputo”
- French: “Maputo”
- Georgian: “მაპუტუ”
- German: “Maputo”
- Hindi: “मापुटो नदी”
- Irish: “Abhainn Maputo”
- Italian: “Maputo”
- Japanese: “ウスツ川”
- Japanese: “マプト川”
- Korean: “마푸토강”
- Lithuanian: “Maputu (upė)”
- Lithuanian: “Maputu”
- Luxembourgish: “Maputo”
- Mingrelian: “მაპუტუ”
- Northern Frisian: “Lusutfu”
- Northern Frisian: “Maputo Struum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maputo”
- Polish: “Great Usutu”
- Polish: “Lusutfu”
- Polish: “Maputo”
- Polish: “Suthu”
- Polish: “Usutu”
- Portuguese: “Rio Maputo”
- Russian: “Мапуту”
- Serbian: “Велики Усуту”
- Serbian: “Лусутфу”
- Serbian: “Мапуто (река)”
- Serbian: “Мапуто”
- Serbian: “Мапуту”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماپوتو چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Maputo”
- Spanish: “Río Maputo”
- Spanish: “Rio Pongola”
- Swahili: “Mto Maputo”
- Swati: “Umfula wase Maputo”
- Turkish: “Büyük Usutu Nehri”
- Turkish: “Lusutfu Nehri”
- Turkish: “Maputo Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Maputo Nehri”
- Turkish: “Suthu Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Мапуту”
- Welsh: “Afon Maputo”
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