Rivers of South Africa by drainage region

The rivers in South Africa by drainage region (single KMZ 14Mb file) from the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) "Water quality data exploration tool" page. Covers rivers in South Africa across primary, secondary, tertiary and quarternary drainage regions. As they note, this is a snapshot of the DWS database and may lag behind the live database by several months.

The same or similar river datasets are can be sourced from the NGI topographical datasets (by Province) http://www.sasdi.net/search.aspx, the WRC Water Resources of South Africa study project site http://waterresourceswr2012.co.za/resource-centre/ or from DWS as 1:500 000 "medium-scale" river coverage https://www.dwa.gov.za/iwqs/gis_data/river/rivs500k.aspx

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Source https://www.dwa.gov.za/iwqs/wms/data/000key2data.asp
Author Department of Water and Sanitation
Maintainer Open Data South Africa
Last Updated May 3, 2020, 23:08 (SAST)
Created May 3, 2020, 23:08 (SAST)