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Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

, arranged geographically by drainage basin.

Flowing into the Atlantic Ocean

* Hoanib River ** Aap River ** Ganamub River ** Mudorib River ** Ombonde River *** Honib River *** Otjovasandu River ** Otjitaimo River ** Tsuchub River * Hoarusib River * Huab River ** Aba Huab River ** Klein Omaruru River **

Klip River The Klip River is the main river draining the portion of Johannesburg south of the Witwatersrand, and its basin includes the Johannesburg CBD and Soweto. The mouth of the river is at Vereeniging where it empties into the Vaal River, which is a tri ...

** Ongwati River *** Kakatswa River **

Sout River Sawt ( ar, صوت / ALA-LC: ''Ṣawt''; literally "voice"; also spelled sout or sowt) is a kind of popular music found in Kuwait and Bahrain. History It is said that sawt was established in Kuwait by the poet, composer, singer and oud player Abda ...

* Khumib River * Koigab River ** Gui-Tsawisib River ** Springbok River *

Kuiseb River The Kuiseb River is an ephemeral river in western-central Namibia. Its source is in the Khomas Highland west of Windhoek. From there it flows westwards through the Namib-Naukluft National Park and the Namib desert to Walvis Bay. Several settlement ...

** Chausib River ** Gaub River *** Ubib River ** Goagos River ** Gomab River ** Koam River ** Nausgomab River ** Ojab River * Kunene River * Messum River *

Omaruru River The Omaruru River is a major river crossing the Erongo Region of western central Namibia from East to West. It originates in the Etjo Mountains, crosses the town of Omaruru and the village of Okombahe, and reaches the sea a few kilometers north ...

** Goab River **

Leeu River Leeu River, (English: Lion River), The Leeu Taaiboschspruit Catchment is situated in the Greater Sasolburg area in the Free State, South Africa. See also * List of rivers of South Africa * List of reservoirs and dams in South Africa The ...

** Okandjou River ** Otjimakuru River ** Spitzkop River *

Orange River The Orange River (from Afrikaans/Dutch: ''Oranjerivier'') is a river in Southern Africa. It is the longest river in South Africa. With a total length of , the Orange River Basin extends from Lesotho into South Africa and Namibia to the north ...

** Fish River ** Konkiep River ** Löwen River ** ''Molopo River (South Africa, Botswana)'' ***

Nossob River The Nossob (also Nosob or Nossop) River (''ǂnuse ǃab'', Khoikhoi for black river) is a dry river bed in eastern Namibia and the Kalahari region of South Africa and Botswana. It covers a distance of 740 km and last flooded in 1989. The ri ...

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Auob River The Auob River is a tributary of the Nossob River in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Headwaters * in Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlan ...

***** Oanob River ***** Olifants River ***** Skaap River **** Black Nossob River **** Klein Nossob River **** White Nossob River * Orawab River * Swakop River ** Gami Kaub River ** Kaan River ** Khan River *** Etiro River *** Slang River ** Omusema River ** Otjiseva River ** Sney River ** Tsaobis River *

Ugab River The Ugab River is an ephemeral river in north-western Namibia. Its lower section forms the border between Kunene Region and Erongo Region but its catchment area extends well into the Otjozondjupa Region. Ugab's source is near Otavi. From there ...

** Erundu River ** Goantagab River ** Okomize River ** Ozongombo River ** Uis River *

Uniab River The Uniab River is an ephemeral river on Namibia Skeleton Coast, located between Torra Bay and Terrace Bay. Its mouth is in the Grootberg Mountains near Palmwag. Inflows of the Uniab are Kaikams, Kawakab, Aub, Urenindes and Obob. The river ...

** Aub River *** Barab River ** Kaikams River ** Kawakab River ** Urenindes River ** Obob River

Flowing into the Indian Ocean

Zambezi The Zambezi River (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers , slightly less than hal ...

Kwando River The Cuando River (or Kwando in the non-colonial spelling) is a river in south-central Africa flowing through Angola and Namibia's Caprivi Strip and into the Linyanti Swamp on the northern border of Botswana. Below the swamp, the river is called t ...

(or Linyanti River or Chobe River)

Flowing into
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Arasab Pan

* Arasab River

Etosha Pan The Etosha Pan is a large endorheic salt pan, forming part of the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin in the north of Namibia. It is a hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated. The 120-kilo ...

* Akazulu River * Cuvelai River * Ekuma River * Etosha River * Nipele River *

Okatana River Okatana is an ephemeral river in the north of Namibia. It forms part of the Cuvelai basin. It has two channels, one running through Oshakati, serving as the boundary between the constituencies of Oshakati West and Oshakati East; the other running e ...

* Omuramba Ovambo * Omuthiya River *

Oshigambo River The Oshigambo River is an ephemeral river in central northern Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola t ...

Koichab Pan

* Koichab River

Okau Swamp

* Munutum River

Okavango Delta The Okavango Delta (or Okavango Grassland; formerly spelled "Okovango" or "Okovanggo") in Botswana is a swampy inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an altitude of 930–1,000 m in the central part of the en ...

Eiseb River Eiseb, also Eiseb Block, is a settlement in the Omaheke Region of Namibia. It is named after the Eiseb River, an ephemeral river (''omuramba'') in the Kalahari desert. Eiseb is situated on the District road D1635 northeast of Talismanus and b ...

* Epukiro River * Daneib River * Khaudom River * Nhoma River *

Okavango River The Okavango River (formerly spelled Okovango or Okovanggo), Also known as the Cubango River, is a river in southwest Africa. It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for . It begins at an elevation of in ...

** Mpungu River ** Omatako Omuramba * Otjozondjou River

Sossusvlei Sossusvlei (sometimes written Sossus Vlei) is a salt and clay pan surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia. The name "Sossusvlei" is often used in an exten ...

Tsauchab The Tsauchab is an ephemeral river in the Hardap Region of central Namibia. Its source is in the southern Naukluft Mountains, from where it flows westwards through the Namib-Naukluft National Park into Sossusvlei, an endorheic basin. The lower ...

** Zebra River

Tsondabvlei

* Tsondab River **

Diep River Diep River (Afrikaans ''Dieprivier''), drains the area between the Kasteel Mountain (north of Malmesbury) and the northern slopes of the Durbanville Hills, in the Western Cape, a province of South Africa South Africa, officially the Repu ...

** Koireb River ** Noab River

Unnamed Pans

* Duwisib River

Evaporating in the desert

Kalahari The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for , covering much of Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa. It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian, and South African Namib coasta ...

* Chapman's River * Rietfontein River

Namib The Namib ( ; pt, Namibe) is a coastal desert in Southern Africa. The name is of Khoekhoegowab origin and means "vast place". According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Nami ...

* Kaukausib * Hunkab River * Nadas River * Ondusengo River * Sechomib River * Tumas River * Uguchab River

Alphabetic list

Akazulu River ∘ Arasab River ∘

Chapman's River ∘ Cuvelai River Daneib River ∘ Duwisib River

∘ Ekuma River ∘ Etosha River ∘ Epukiro River Fish River Hoanib River ∘ Hoarisib River ∘ Huab River ∘ Hunkab River Kaukausib River ∘ Khan River ∘ Khaudom River ∘ Khumib River ∘ Koigab River ∘ Koichab River ∘ Konkiep River ∘

∘ Kunene River ∘

Löwen River Messum River ∘ Mpungu River ∘ Munutum River Nadas River ∘ Nhoma River ∘ Nipele River ∘

Oanob River ∘ Olifants River ∘

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∘ Omatako Omuramba ∘ Omuramba Ovambo ∘ Omuthiya River ∘ Ondusengo River ∘

∘ Orawab River ∘

∘ Otjozondjou River Rietfontein River Sechomib River ∘ Skaap River ∘ Swakop River Tsauchab River ∘ Tsondab River ∘ Tumas River

∘ Uguchab River ∘

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