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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Intermittent stream
- Description: river in Namibia
- Also known as: “FishRiver”, “Great Fish”, “Gross Fisch-Fluss”, “Oub”, “The Fish River”, and “Vis”
Fish River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: ǁKaras, Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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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: “Рака Фіш”
- Belarusian: “Фіш”
- Bulgarian: “Фиш Ривър”
- Bulgarian: “Фиш”
- Cebuano: “Fish”
- Chinese: “菲什干河”
- Chinese: “魚河”
- Chinese: “鱼河”
- Chuvash: “Фиш-Ривер”
- Dutch: “Visrivier”
- Esperanto: “Fiŝrivero”
- Finnish: “Fischfluss”
- Finnish: “Fish River”
- Finnish: “Visrivier”
- French: “Fish River”
- French: “Fish”
- Fulah: “Fuuɗol Fish (Namibia)”
- Fulah: “Fuuɗol Fish”
- Georgian: “ფიში”
- German: “Fischfluss”
- 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”
- Lithuanian: “Žuvų upė”
- Macedonian: “Фиш (Намибија)”
- Macedonian: “Фиш”
- Malayalam: “ഫിഷ് നദി”
- Mingrelian: “ფიშ-რივერი”
- Mingrelian: “ფიში”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fish”
- Persian: “رود فیش”
- Polish: “Fish River”
- Portuguese: “Rio Fish”
- Romanian: “Fish River”
- Romanian: “Visrivier”
- Russian: “Фиш-Ривер”
- Russian: “Фиш”
- Slovenian: “Fish”
- Slovenian: “Reka Fish”
- Slovenian: “Ribja reka, Namibija”
- South Azerbaijani: “فیش چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Fish Namibia”
- Spanish: “Río Fish Namibia”
- Spanish: “Rio Fish”
- Spanish: “Río Fish”
- Spanish: “Visrivier”
- Ukrainian: “Фіш-Рівер”
- Welsh: “Afon Fish”
- Western Frisian: “Fiskrivier”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kabies and Vredehoek.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rooilepel and Verneukberg.
ǁKaras: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Lüderitz, Keetmanshoop, Oranjemund, and Fish River Canyon Park.
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