River
Notwane River
239 km from source to mouth · Botswana.
BotswanaFlows into Limpopo River3rd longest in Botswana
In numbers
Length
239km
Average flow
5.3m³/s
Basin
18,053km²
Drop
201m
from 1,047 m to 846 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
239 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,047 m
- 17 kmRamotswa33,271 people
- 41 kmSkuinsdam18 km²
- 47 kmTlokweng55,508 people
- 62 kmOodi10,257 people
- 81 kmMorwa4,988 people
- 85 kmMetsimotlhabe Rivertributary
- 89 kmMochudi50,321 people
- 239 kmLimpopo Riverat 846 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Botswana
At the mouth it carries 5.3 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 469 seconds. It drops from 1,047 m to 846 m, 0.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 18,053 km², about the size of FJ. 599,000 people live in it. Highest water: February; lowest: from June to September. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 98% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- TlokwengLargest city on its banks · 55,508 people
- Sir Seretse Khama International Airport (GBE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 14 km from the cityCar hire at GBE airport (Gaborone)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to May and from August to OctoberThe best months to visit
Notwane River, month by month
Highest water: February
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from April to May and from August to October.
From about 1.1 m³/s in the lowest month to 21 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
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The basin
Notwane River: the basin in numbers
17,432 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 599,000people live in the basin
- 34/km²people per km²
- 1,074maverage altitude of the basin
- 469mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 19.7°Caverage air temperature
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 6% Forest
- 4% Cropland
- 48% Pasture
- 3% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Notwane River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Notwane River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
15mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Skuinsdamkm 4118km²
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Mountains at the source (15)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Otse Hill12 km away1,491m
- Mafukutswane Hill14 km away1,276m
- Ditsotswane Hills6.0 km away1,151m
- Kike Hill14 km away1,130m
- Mafukutswe Hill14 km away1,130m
- Sepetlo13 km away1,129m
- Lokhohat12 km away1,123m
- Morepo Hill5.3 km away1,111m
7 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Notwane River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Limpopo River
Mozambique1,750 km170 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Metsimotlhabe River
South Africa
ZimbabweWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q4140059) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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