Buffalo River
The Buffalo River is the largest tributary of the Tugela River in South Africa. With a total length of 426 km, its source is in Majuba Hill, "Hill of Doves" in the Zulu language, located northeast of Volksrust, close to the Mpumalanga / KwaZulu-Natal border.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Stream
- Description: tributary of the Thukela River in South Africa
- Also known as: “Mzinyathi”, “布法罗河”, and “水牛河”
Buffalo River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-28.71762° or 28° 43′ 3″ south
Longitude
30.64462° or 30° 38′ 41″ east
Elevation
468 metres (1,535 feet)
Open location code
5G3G7JJV+XR
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Buffalo River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Buffelsrivier (KwaZulu-Natal)”
- Afrikaans: “Buffelsrivier”
- Asturian: “Ríu Buffalo”
- Catalan: “riu Buffalo”
- Catalan: “Riu Buffalo”
- Cebuano: “Buffelsrivier”
- Chinese: “布法羅河”
- Dutch: “Buffelsrivier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر بوفالو”
- French: “Buffalo”
- French: “rivière Buffalo”
- German: “Buffalo River”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Buffalo River”
- Hausa: “Kogin Buffalo (KwaZulu-Natal)”
- Hausa: “Kogin Buffalo”
- Irish: “Abhainn Buffalo”
- Italian: “Buffalo (KwaZulu-Natal)”
- Italian: “Buffalo”
- Persian: “رود بوفالو”
- Portuguese: “Rio Buffalo (KwaZulu-Natal)”
- Portuguese: “Rio Buffalo”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Buffalo (KwaZulu-Natal)”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Buffalo”
- Welsh: “Afon Buffalo”
- “Buffalo River (KwaZulu-Natal)”
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