The Mokolo River is a major watercourse in Limpopo Province of South Africa . This river collects much of the drainage of the Waterberg Massif and discharges it to the Limpopo River . The river's catchment area comprises 8,387 square kilometres (3,238 sq mi).
6-720: Mokolo Dam (previously known as the Hans Strijdom Dam ) is a rock-fill type dam located on the Mokolo River , near Lephalale , Limpopo , South Africa . It was established in 1980. The Malmanies River and the Bulspruit River, two tributaries of the Mokolo, also enter the dam from its left side. The dam supplies water to Lephalale town. The dam mainly serves for municipal and industrial purposes and its hazard potentials has been ranked high (3). The dam supplies
12-523: Is the only large dam in the system. Approximately 87 percent of the river's water use is for agriculture . Some wetlands rehabilitation in the upper Mokolo has been carried out and that effort has been deemed a success. The Mokolo Dam Nature Reserve is located by the eastern and southern sides of the Mokolo Dam reservoir. The highest concentration of hippopotamus in the Limpopo River
18-611: The Lephalale area, Grootgeluk coal mine , Matimba power station and part of the water requirements of Medupi power station . The Mokolo Dam Nature Reserve is located by the eastern and southern sides of the dam. The shoreline of the dam is heavily infested with Phragmites reeds. This article about a dam or floodgate in South Africa is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mokolo River The Mokolo River and its upper course tributaries rise in
24-636: The Mokolo River flows through flat sandy areas until it reaches the Limpopo's right bank. The most important tributaries of the Mokolo are: Sand River (whose uppermost section is named 'Little Nyl'), Klein Sand River, Sandspruit, Sondagsloop, Loubadspruit, Grootspruit, Sterkstroom, Brakspruit, Malmanies, Bulspruit, Rietspruit, Sandloop, Poer se Loop and the Tambotie River . The Mokolo Dam
30-578: The northern Waterberg, an extensive rock formation that was shaped by hundreds of millions of years of river erosion to yield diverse bluffs and buttes . Then the river flows through the relatively flat area of the lowveld until it enters the Mokolo Dam . From there, it flows through another gorge before entering the Limpopo Plain, near the junction with the Rietspruit . From this point,
36-598: The southwestern part of the Waterberg, between 1200 and 1600 metres above mean sea level. The Mokolo proper originates about 1.5 km north of Alma at the confluence of the Sand River with the Grootspruit River in a flattish, open area with numerous koppies . Shortly thereafter it flows northwards through a steep gorge emerging above the town of Vaalwater . As it heads northwards it threads through
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