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Vet River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Vet River (Afrikaans: Vetrivier, "fat river") is a westward-flowing tributary of the Vaal River in central South Africa. Its sources are between Marquard and Clocolan and the Vet River flows roughly northwestwards to meet the Vaal at the Bloemhof Dam near Hoopstad. Erfenis Dam was built on this river in order to provide water for the town of Theunissen.

Flows through: South Africa.

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

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