The N'waswitshaka River (formerly N'waswitsake) and its tributaries are completely contained in the southern

Kruger Park Kruger National Park () is a national park in South Africa covering an area of in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in the country's northeast. It extends from north to south and from east to west. The administrative headquarters are i ...

Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Nguni languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It shares bor ...

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. It has its origin near Pretoriuskop and joins the

Sabie River The Sabie River is a river in South Africa that forms part of the Komati River System. The catchment area of the Sabie-Sand system is 6,320 km2 in extent. The Sabie is one of the most biologically diverse rivers in South Africa, with genera ...

Skukuza Skukuza (formerly Reserve, Sabi Bridge and Sikhukhuza), a town in Mpumalanga located 57 km east of Hazyview at the confluence of the N'waswitshaka River, N'waswitshaka and Sabie Rivers, is the administrative headquarters of the Kruger Natio ...

. The name means "the happy one" in

Xitsonga Tsonga ( ) or Xitsonga as an endonym (also known as Changana in Mozambique), is a Bantu language spoken by the Tsonga people of South Africa and . It is mutually intelligible with Tswa and Ronga and the name "Tsonga" is often used as a ...

, and is said to relate to an individual who always smiled.

Research camp

Near

's staff village is the N'waswitshaka research camp, which provides accommodation for visiting researchers and their guests. The facilities are comparable to the rondavels, chalets and campsites in the main camp, but are entirely self-serve. Additional resources such as an office facility with internet access and game guards are available for researchers if required.

Gallery

Morning Walk (4096689388).jpg, The river at dawn River bed (208372684).jpg, Shrinking pools in the river Morning Walk (4096688424).jpg, Animal and human tracks in the sand

References

Rivers of Mpumalanga {{SouthAfrica-river-stub