Illovo Beach is a small coastal resort on the banks of the
Lovu River in
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...
,
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
. It is now part of
eThekwini. The river was named by the
Zulus "iLovu" because of the mlovu trees growing on its banks.
References
Populated places in eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality
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