Auob
| Auob | ||
 The Auob in the catchment area of the Molopo (center left) |
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| Data | ||
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Hardap , Namibia South Africa 
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| River system | Orange | |
| Drain over | Nossob → Molopo → Orange → Atlantic | |
| source | In the Hoachanas area 23 ° 55 ′ 3 ″ S , 18 ° 3 ′ 10 ″ E |
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| Source height | 1260 m | |
| muzzle | Opens at Twee Rivieren ( South Africa ) in the Nossob coordinates: 26 ° 26 '5 " S , 20 ° 37' 34" E, 26 ° 26 '5 " S , 20 ° 37' 34" E |
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| Mouth height | 875 m | |
| Height difference | 385 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 0.96 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 400 km | |
| Left tributaries |
Olifants River 25 ° 27'31 "S 019 ° 26'13" E |
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 View upstream on the Auob near Gochas |
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The Auob is the westernmost of the three distinctive rivers of the Namibian Kalahari . Among other things, the villages of Stampriet and Gochas lie on it .
course
The river has its source a good 150 kilometers southeast of Windhoek and has a very straight course in a southeastern direction. About 70 kilometers before it meets the border, the most important tributary of the leinks flows, the Olifants . At 25 ° 45'54 "S 020 ° 00'00" E the Auob finally crosses the border to South Africa in a south-easterly direction . After another 100 km on South African soil of Auob at ends Twee Rivieren (South Africa) and Two Rivers ( Botswana ) in the coming also from the Namibian Kalahari Nossob .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Namibia Travel Map . Kunth-Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95504-578-4 .