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Boesmans River (Eastern Cape)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Boesmans River (Afrikaans: Boesmansrivier) is a river in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It originates north of Kirkwood and runs east past Alicedale, before it turns and twists south and east to Kenton-on-Sea, where it mouths into the Indian Ocean through a tidal estuary only 1.7 km to the SW of the mouth of the Kariega River.

Flows through: South Africa.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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