Fish River
The Fish River is a river in Namibia. It is 650 km long, flowing from the Naukluft Mountains 150 km to the Hardap Dam near Mariental. From there the flow is entirely blocked, all further flow downstream coming from tributaries downstream from the dam.
- Type: Intermittent stream
- Description: river in Namibia
- Also known as: “FishRiver”, “Great Fish”, “Gross Fisch-Fluss”, “Oub”, “Reka Fish”, “Río Fish”, “Rio Fish Namibia”, “Río Fish Namibia”, “The Fish River”, “Vis”, “Žuvų upė”, “Фиш Ривър”, and “ფიშ-რივერი”
Fish River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: ǁKaras, Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-28.09873° or 28° 5′ 55″ south
Longitude
17.17525° or 17° 10′ 31″ east
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
Open location code
5F3VW52G+G4
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Fish River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Visrivier”
- Arabic: “نهر فيش”
- Asturian: “Ríu Fish”
- Belarusian: “Фіш”
- Bulgarian: “Фиш”
- Cebuano: “Fish”
- Chinese: “菲什干河”
- Chinese: “魚河”
- Chinese: “鱼河”
- Chuvash: “Фиш-Ривер”
- Dutch: “Visrivier”
- Esperanto: “Fiŝrivero”
- Finnish: “Fish River”
- French: “Fish”
- Fulah: “Fuuɗol Fish (Namibia)”
- Fulah: “Fuuɗol Fish”
- Georgian: “ფიში”
- German: “Fischfluss”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Fish River”
- Hausa: “Kifi (kogin Namibia)”
- Hausa: “Kifi”
- Hebrew: “פיש”
- Hindi: “फिश नदी, नामीबिया”
- Hindi: “फिश नदी”
- Irish: “Abhainn Fish”
- Italian: “Fish River”
- Japanese: “フィッシュ川”
- Lithuanian: “Fiš Riveris”
- Macedonian: “Фиш (Намибија)”
- Macedonian: “Фиш”
- Malayalam: “ഫിഷ് നദി”
- Mingrelian: “ფიში”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fish”
- Persian: “رود فیش”
- Polish: “Fish River”
- Portuguese: “Rio Fish”
- Romanian: “Fish River”
- Russian: “Фиш-Ривер”
- Russian: “Фиш”
- Slovenian: “Fish”
- Slovenian: “Ribja reka, Namibija”
- South Azerbaijani: “فیش چایی”
- Spanish: “Visrivier”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Fish (Namibia)”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Fish”
- Ukrainian: “Фіш-Рівер”
- Welsh: “Afon Fish”
- Western Frisian: “Fiskrivier”
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Places to explore: Kabies and Vredehoek.
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Highlights: Rooilepel and Verneukberg.
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