Luphephe River

The Luphephe River flows from Guyuni area, north of Thohoyandou, to merge with Nwanedi River inside the Nwanedi nature reserve and resort, forming the Nwanedi – Luphephe dams. Immediately downstream of the reservoir the Nwanedi River continues to flow beyond the boundary of the nature reserve following a winding course across the Limpopo plain where it finally meets and drains into the Limpopo River. The Luphehe River and its tributaries provides water for agriculture, wildlife, and humans living within the Limpopo River Basin. The Nwanedi nature reserve and resort have been subjected to a few changes in methods of running their services with invisible changes, and tourism profits the surrounding communities. Because of this, rural areas becomes a better choice for tourism destinations, ranging from adventure, cultural, ethnic and ecotourism, to name just a few. The upper catchments of both Luphephe and Nwanedi rivers were found to have high ecological importance and sensitivity. Thus becomes important to protect the upper catchments into a natural or good state.

Flows through: South Africa.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.