In numbers
Length
73km
Average flow
7.4m³/s
Basin
860km²
Drop
775m
from 1,419 m to 644 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
73 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,419 m
- 5 kmSwalluwnest2,520 people
- 9 kmBetty's Goed1,784 people
- 43 kmMbabane76,218 people
- 73 kmMouthat 644 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Eswatini
At the mouth it carries 7.4 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 337 seconds. It drops from 1,419 m to 644 m, 11 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 860 km².
Where to start
- MbabaneLargest city on its banks · 76,218 people
- King Mswati III International Airport (SHO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 58 km from the cityCar hire at MQP airport (Mbombela)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Mbabane River: what you find on the way
- 2WaterfallsMantenga Falls
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Mbabane 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.
6mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (6)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Glen Hill5.6 km away
- Biltongkop8.0 km away
- Bakenkop14 km away
- Wildehondekop13 km away
- Swaelberg8.5 km away
- Makhwane14 km away
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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Eswatini191 km51 m³/s27 km awayMaputo River
Mozambique300 km110 m³/s145 km awayKomati RiverMozambique480 km110 m³/s169 km awayLimpopo RiverMozambique1,750 km170 m³/s270 km awayTugela River
South Africa520 km170 m³/s307 km awayOlifants River (Limpopo)South Africa560 km110 m³/s298 km awayMalibamat'so River
Lesotho140 km36 m³/s423 km awayBubye River
Zimbabwe1,010 km140 m³/s460 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q4789096) · 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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