Pongola River
The Pongola River is a river in South Africa. It is a tributary of the Maputo River. It rises near Utrecht in northern KwaZulu-Natal, flows east through oPhongolo, is dammed at Pongolapoort, and crosses the Ubombo Mountains; then it flows north towards Mozambique, joining the Maputo River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bobrayner, Public domain.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in South Africa
- Also known as: “Phongolo”, “Pongoloriver”, and “Pongolorivier”
Pongola River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Pongola River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Pongolarivier”
- Armenian: “Պոնգոլա գետ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Pongola”
- Basque: “Pongola (ibaia)”
- Basque: “Pongola”
- Catalan: “Riu Pongola”
- Cebuano: “Pongolo”
- Chinese: “蓬戈拉河”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر پونجولا”
- French: “Pongola”
- German: “Pongola”
- Hebrew: “נהר פונגולה”
- Irish: “Abhainn Pongola”
- Italian: “Pongola”
- Japanese: “ポンゴラ川”
- Korean: “퐁골라강”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pongola”
- Polish: “Pongola”
- Portuguese: “Pongola”
- Portuguese: “Rio Pongola”
- Russian: “Понгола (приток Мапуту)”
- Russian: “Понгола”
- Serbian: “Понголo (река)”
- Serbian: “Понголo”
- Spanish: “Rio Pongola”
- Spanish: “Río Pongola”
- Swahili: “Mto Pongola”
- Turkish: “Pongola Irmağı”
- Welsh: “Afon Pongola”
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