The Salt River ( af, Soutrivier) is a river in the
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...
province of
South Africa
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. It is a
confluence
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of the
Black River which just previously has been confluenced by the
Elsieskraal River
The Elsieskraal River (Afrikaans ''Elsieskraalrivier'') is a small river that flows through the City of Cape Town, Cape Town metropolitan area, in South Africa. It rises in the Tygerberg Nature Reserve, Tygerberg Hills and flows in a generally so ...
, and the
Liesbeeck River
The Liesbeek River (also spelt Liesbeeck) is a river in Cape Town in South Africa. It is named after a small river in the Netherlands. The first "free burghers" of the Dutch East India Company were granted land to farm along the river in 1657, sh ...
. It flows into Table Bay at the Salt River mouth. Its
catchment
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is part of the Central Management Area of the
City of Cape Town
The City of Cape Town ( af, Stad Kaapstad; xh, IsiXeko saseKapa) is the metropolitan municipality which governs the city of Cape Town, South Africa and its suburbs and exurbs. As of the 2011 census, it had a population of 3,740,026.
The remo ...
.
State of Rivers Report: Greater Cape Town River 2005
/ref> In 1510 the area was the scene of the Battle of Salt River
The Battle of Salt River was a small military engagement between the crew of a Portuguese fleet led by Francisco de Almeida and the indigenous ǃUriǁʼaekua ("Goringhaiqua" in Dutch approximate spelling), notable for being the first military e ...
.
See also
*Salt River, Cape Town
Salt River is a suburb of Cape Town, located near Table Bay, to the east of Cape Town's central business district. Salt River is served by a railway station of the same name, and has the postcode 7925. It is noted for its association with the c ...
, the suburb in Cape Town
**Salt River railway station
Salt River railway station is a Metrorail (Western Cape), Metrorail railway station in Salt River, Cape Town, Salt River, Cape Town. It is the second station from the Cape Town railway station, Cape Town terminus on the old main line to Bellvill ...
, a station in Salt River, Cape Town
*Battle of Salt River
The Battle of Salt River was a small military engagement between the crew of a Portuguese fleet led by Francisco de Almeida and the indigenous ǃUriǁʼaekua ("Goringhaiqua" in Dutch approximate spelling), notable for being the first military e ...
*Salt River (Garden Route)
The Salt River aka Soutrivier of the Garden Route arises in the Tsitsikamma Mountains between Knysna and Port Elizabeth in South Africa, and mouths into the Indian Ocean just west of Nature's Valley.
Normally a gentle, small stream, the river's ...
, a river mouthing near Nature's Valley
Nature's Valley is a holiday resort and small village on the Garden Route along the southern Cape coast of South Africa. Nature's Valley lies between the Salt River, the foothills of the Tsitsikamma Mountains, the Indian Ocean and the Groot River ...
*List of rivers of South Africa
This is a list of rivers in South Africa.
It is quite common to find the Afrikaans word ''-rivier'' as part of the name. Another common suffix is "''-kamma''", from the Khoisan term for "river"
Meiring, Barbara"South African Toponymic Guideline ...
*List of estuaries of South Africa
This is a list of estuaries in South Africa. The list is in order from East (border with Mozambique) to the West (border with Namibia).
The South African coastline stretches for some 3000 km from Kosi Bay near the Mozambique border in the ...
References
External links
State of Rivers Report: Greater Cape Town River 2005
{{Cape Town, natural
Rivers of the Western Cape
af:Soutrivier