River
Shashe River
300 km from source to mouth · Zimbabwe and Botswana.
Zimbabwe and BotswanaFlows into Limpopo River3rd longest in Zimbabwe
In numbers
Length
300km
Average flow
21m³/s
Basin
18,991km²
Drop
487m
from 1,001 m to 514 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
300 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,001 m
- 9 kmShashe Mooke5,897 people
- 39 kmTonota23,296 people
- 110 kmTati Rivertributary
- 113 kmRamokgwebana Rivertributary
- 242 kmThuli Rivertributary
- 300 kmLimpopo Riverat 514 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River
At the mouth it carries 21 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 119 seconds. It drops from 1,001 m to 514 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 18,991 km², about the size of FJ. 461,000 people live in it. Highest water: February; lowest: from June to September. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (30% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- TonotaLargest city on its banks · 23,296 people
- Phillip Gaonwe Matante International Airport (FRW)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 32 km from the cityCar hire in FrancistownDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to AugustThe best months to visit
Shashe River, month by month
Highest water: February
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from April to August.
From about 2.5 m³/s in the lowest month to 87 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
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Shashe River: the basin in numbers
29,066 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 461,000people live in the basin
- 16/km²people per km²
- 1,004maverage altitude of the basin
- 460mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 20.2°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 26% Forest
- 9% Cropland
- 51% Pasture
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
Shashe River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Shashe 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.
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Selolwe Hill14 km away1,019m
- Selobe Hill8.1 km away1,017m
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
Shashe River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Limpopo River
Mozambique1,750 km170 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Thuli River, Tati River, Ramokgwebana River
South AfricaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q859372) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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