Mokolo River

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The Mokolo River is a major watercourse in Limpopo Province of South Africa. The river's catchment area comprises 8387 square kilometers.[1] This river collects much of the drainage of the Waterberg Massif and discharges it to the Limpopo River. It threads through the Waterberg Massif, which is a biosphere that contains considerable biodiversity, including numerous large mammals such as giraffes, white rhinos, blue wildebeests. Waterberg is the first region in the northern part of South Africa to be named as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO. The extensive rock formation was shaped by hundreds of millions of years of river erosion to yield diverse bluffs and buttes.[2]

Approximately 87 percent of the river's water beneficial uses is for agriculture. Some wetlands rehabilitation in the upper Mokolo has been carried out and that effort has been deemed a success.[3]

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Coordinates: 23.233° S 27.717° E