Rietvlei Dam
The Rietvlei dam is an earth-fill type dam and is one of a number of dams supplying water to the Pretoria region of South Africa. It supplies around 41 million liters of drinking water daily, about 5.9% of the water requirement of Pretoria.Photo: NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: dam in Pretoria, Gauteng
- Also known as: “Rietvlei” and “Rietvlei River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rietvlei Nature Reserve and Cornwall Hill College.
Rietvlei Nature Reserve
Photo: Ian Barbour, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rietvlei Nature Reserve, located in southern Pretoria, is about 4,000 hectares (40 km, of which the dam constitutes some 20ha. A network of roads criss-cross the entire area, which facilitates access to visitors and management.
Cornwall Hill College
School
Photo: Derek J Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cornwall Hill College is a private, boarding English medium co-educational preparatory and college in the suburb in Irene in Centurion in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Cornwall Hill College is situated 3½ km west of Rietvlei Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elardus Park and Wingate Park.
Elardus Park
Suburb
Elardus Park is a residential suburb of the city of Pretoria, South Africa. It is located to the south of Waterkloof Ridge in a leafy, established area that is home to the city's medium expensive real estate. Elardus Park is situated 5 km north of Rietvlei Dam.
Wingate Park
Suburb
Wingate Park is a suburb of the city of Pretoria, South Africa. Located south-east of Pretoria CBD and just west of Moreleta Park in a leafy, established area that is home to the city's medium expensive real estate. Wingate Park is situated 5 km north of Rietvlei Dam.
Irene
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Irene is a village of 2,700 people on the outskirts of Centurion in Tshwane, South Africa. It is south of Pretoria. Irene is known for having been a home to the South African statesman and military leader Jan Smuts, and as the site of a concentration camp where the British imprisoned Boer women and children during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Rietvlei Dam
- Categories: dam and body of water
- Location: Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Rietvlei Dam” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rietvleidam”
- Chinese: “里特弗莱大坝”
- Hausa: “Dam ɗin Rietvlei”
- Italian: “diga di Rietvlei”
- Persian: “سد ریتولی”
- Yoruba: “Rietvlei Dam”
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