CONFLUENCE - River Treur - River Blyde - South Africa
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The River Treur meets River Blyde at the famous Bourke's Luck Potholes at the Blyde River Canyon in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Waymark Code: WMJGJ5
Location: Mpumalanga, South Africa
Date Posted: 11/16/2013
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The Treur River (from Afrikaans: mourning river) is a small river in the Drakensberg escarpment region of eastern Mpumalanga province, South Africa. It is nowhere far from the R532 motor route, which intersects it twice. Its ultimate origin is inside the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve, though most of its course is to the west of this protected area. It is a tributary of the Blyde River, and has no major tributaries of its own. There are two sharp drops in its course, at Poe Falls and Bourke's Luck Potholes respectively.
The Blyde River is a river in the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces of South Africa. It has a northwards course in steep-sided valleys and ravines of the Mpumalanga Drakensberg, before it enters the lowveld region of the Limpopo province. It has its ultimate origins at around 2,000 m altitude in the Hartebeesvlakte conservation area, to the north of Long Tom Pass. One of the most-visited attractions in South Africa, the Blyde River Canyon is 26 kilometers in length and is, on average, around 800m deep.
Etymology: The Blyde, meaning "glad", "joyous" or "happy" in Cape Dutch, was thus named during a voortrekker expedition. This occurred in 1844 when Hendrik Potgieter and others returned safely from Delagoa Bay to the rest of their party of trekkers who had considered them dead. While still under this misapprehension they had named the river near their encampment, Treurrivier, or 'mourning river'.
We visited the Bourke's Luck Potholes and many other Blyde River Canyon's beautiful viewpoints on our way from Kruger National Park to Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal.
The coordinates were taken from the bridge spanning the Blyde River just above the Bourke's Luck Potholes.
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