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Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

, arranged geographically by drainage basin.

Flowing into the Atlantic Ocean

Hoanib River The Hoanib is one of the 12 ephemeral seasonal rivers in the west of Namibia, where it used to be the border between northern Damaraland and Kaokoland. Its length is . With the low population density in the area, the oasis character of the river ...

Aap River Aap or AAP may refer to: Aerospace * Apollo Applications Program, NASA's vision for long-range space exploration based on technologies developed for Project Apollo Aviation * Aappilattoq Heliport (Avannaata) in Aappilattoq, Greenland * Agrupac ...

** Ganamub River ** Mudorib River ** Ombonde River *** Honib River *** Otjovasandu River ** Otjitaimo River ** Tsuchub River *

Hoarusib River The Hoarusib River is an ephemeral river in the Kunene Region of north-western Namibia. Its source is near the regional capital Opuwo, and the river flows through the Tonnesen and Giraffe Mountains into the Atlantic Ocean. The Hoarusib occasio ...

Huab River The Huab River is an ephemeral river in the Kunene Region of north-western Namibia. Its source is southeast of Kamanjab, from where it flows westwards through Mopane savanna until it reaches the Skeleton Coast and the Atlantic Ocean. Inflows of ...

Aba Huab River ABA may refer to: Aviation * AB Aerotransport, former Scandinavian airline * IATA airport code for Abakan International Airport in Republic of Khakassia, Russia Businesses and organizations Broadcasting * Alabama Broadcasters Association, Unit ...

** Klein Omaruru River ** Klip River ** Ongwati River *** Kakatswa River **

Sout River Sawt ( / 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 Abdallah al-Far ...

Khumib River The river Khumib is an ephemeral river crossing the Kunene Region of north-western Namibia. It occasionally carries surface water during the rainy seasons in November and February/March. Its catchment area is estimated between 2200 and . The Khum ...

Koigab River The Koigab River is an ephemeral river on Namibia Skeleton Coast. Its source is in the Grootberg Mountains near Bergsig, where its two inflows, the Gui-Tsawisib and the Springbok are located. Koigab's catchment area A catchment area in human ...

** Gui-Tsawisib River **

Springbok River The springbok or springbuck (''Antidorcas marsupialis'') is an antelope found mainly in south and southwest Africa. The sole member of the genus ''Antidorcas'', this bovid was first described by the German zoologist Eberhard August Wilhelm v ...

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 The Cunene (Portuguese spelling) or Kunene (common Namibian spelling) is a river in Southern Africa. It flows from the Angola highlands southwards to the border with Namibia. It then flows in a westerly direction along the border until it reaches ...

* 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 nort ...

** 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. Armenia Dam is constructed across the river. Invasive tamarix species are found along the river. ...

** Okandjou River ** Otjimakuru River **

Spitzkop River The Spitzkoppe (from German for "pointed dome"; also referred to as Spitzkop, Groot Spitzkop, or the "Matterhorn of Namibia") is a group of bald granite peaks or inselbergs located between Usakos and Swakopmund in the Namib desert of Namib ...

Orange River The Orange River (from Afrikaans/Dutch language, 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 Namibi ...

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

Nossob River The Nossob River (also Nosob or Nossop; ''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 riv ...

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Auob River The Auob River is a river in the Northern Cape province of South Africa and the Hardap Region of Namibia. It flows through the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. It is a tributary of the Nossob River. Route The river flows about southeastward thro ...

***** Oanob River ***** Olifants River ***** Skaap River **** Black Nossob River **** Klein Nossob River **** White Nossob River * Orawab River *

Swakop River The Swakop River () is a major river in western central Namibia. Its source is in the Khomas Highland. From there it flows westwards through the town of Okahandja, the historic mission station at Gross Barmen, and the settlement of Otjimb ...

** Gami Kaub River ** Kaan River **

Khan River The river Khan is an ephemeral river crossing the Erongo region of central Namibia. It is the main tributary of the Swakop River and only occasionally carries surface water during the rainy season from November to February/March. Khan's catchment ...

*** Etiro River ***

Slang River Slang River is a river in Mpumalanga, South Africa, near the towns of Volksrust and Wakkerstroom. The Zaaihoek Dam lies on the river. See also * List of rivers of South Africa This is a list of rivers in South Africa. It is quite commo ...

** 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 t ...

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

Uis River Uis is a settlement located in the Erongo Region, Namibia. It belongs to the Dâures Constituency, Dâures electoral constituency. Located in the former Damaraland, it is known for the local mineral wealth. The settlement was established in 1958 ...

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

Aub River Aub () is a town in the district of Würzburg, in Bavaria, Germany, southeast of Würzburg and northwest of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, near the border of Baden-Württemberg. It is fed by the river Gollach and divided into three parts: Aub, Bal ...

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

Flowing into the Indian Ocean

Zambezi The Zambezi (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 half of t ...

Kwando River The Cuando (or Kwando) 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 the Linyanti River and, farther east, ...

(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 vast hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated. The 1 ...

* Akazulu River * Cuvelai River *

Ekuma River The Ekuma River is one of three rivers that supply most of water to the pan in the Etosha National Park in Namibia, the other two being the Oshigambo River and the Omurambo Ovambo River. The Ekumo is an ephemeral river that occasionally flows, o ...

* 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 ...

Omuramba Ovambo The Omuramba Ovambo is an omuramba (dry river bed) in Namibia. It originates about five kilometers from Tsintsabis and flows into Etosha Pan. Its catchment area is . This river only flows when there is heavy rainfall. The river has almost no org ...

* Omuthiya River *

Oshigambo River The Oshigambo River is an ephemeral river in central northern Namibia, flowing into Etosha Pan. It almost never carries surface water but flowed and broke its banks in 2006, flooding Oshigambo, a village it cuts through. Students at the Oshigambo Hi ...

Koichab Pan

* Koichab River

Okau Swamp

* Munutum River

Okavango Delta The Okavango Delta or Okavango Grassland is a vast inland delta in Botswana formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an elevation of in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari Desert. It is a UNESCO Wor ...

* Eiseb River *

Epukiro River Epukiro is a cluster of small settlements in the remote eastern part of the Omaheke Region of Namibia, situated about northeast of the regional capital Gobabis. The centre of the populated area is the Catholic mission station. Epukiro had about ...

* Daneib River * Khaudom River * Nhoma River *

Okavango River The Okavango River (formerly spelt Okovango or Okovanggo), is a river in southwest Africa. It is known by this name in Botswana, and as Cubango in Angola, and Kavango in Namibia. It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, runni ...

** 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 Ephemerality, 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 ba ...

** 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 Re ...

** Koireb River ** Noab River

Unnamed Pans

* Duwisib River

Evaporating in the desert

Kalahari The Kalahari Desert is a large semiarid sandy savanna in Southern Africa covering including much of Botswana as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa. It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian, and South African Namib coastal d ...

* Chapman's River * Rietfontein River

Namib The Namib ( ; ) is a coastal desert in Southern Africa. According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and northwest South Africa, extending southward from the Carunjamba Ri ...

* 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 Eiseb River ∘

∘ Etosha River ∘

Fish River Guruchab

∘ Hoarisib River ∘

∘ Hunkab River

Kaukausib River Kaukausib-River in German called ''Kaukausib-Mulde'' is a Wadi, rivier (dry river) within the Sperrgebiet, Diamond Restricted Area also called ''Sperrgebiet'' in the south of Namibia. The Kaukausib-Rivier extends through the Namib from south to no ...

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∘ Khaudom River ∘

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∘ Koichab River ∘ Konkiep River ∘

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

Oanob River ∘ Olifants River ∘

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∘ Omatako Omuramba ∘ Ombuka ∘

∘ Omuthiya River ∘ Ondusengo River ∘

∘ Orawab River ∘

∘ Otjozondjou River Rietfontein River Sechomib River ∘ Skaap River ∘

Tsauchab River ∘ Tsondab River ∘ Tumas River

∘ Uguchab River ∘

References

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Rivers A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of its course if it ru ...