Motloutse
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Motloutse Maklautsi |
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 The Motloutse in the Limpopo catchment area (upper left center) |
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 Botswana
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| River system | Limpopo | |
| Drain over | Limpopo → Indian Ocean | |
| source | southeast of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans | |
| muzzle | in Limpopo coordinates: 22 ° 13 ′ 33 ″ S , 29 ° 1 ′ 11 ″ E 22 ° 13 ′ 33 ″ S , 29 ° 1 ′ 11 ″ E |
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| Mouth height |
538 m
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| Catchment area | 19,053 km² | |
| Discharge at the Tobane A Eo gauge : 7930 km² |
MNQ 1969-1995 MQ 1969-1995 Mq 1969-1995 MHQ 1969-1995 |
0 l / s 30.5 m³ / s 3.8 l / (s km²) 116 m³ / s |
| Right tributaries | Tuni | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Letsibogo Dam | |
The Motloutse is a left tributary of the Limpopo in Botswana .
course
The river has its source in the Central District, southeast of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans . It flows in a south-east-east direction and finally flows into the Limpopo.
The Letsibogo Dam, built in 2000, was intended to supply water to Selebi-Phikwe and other communities in the area, but the water is mainly directed to the capital Gaborone via a pipeline .
Hydrometry
The flow rate of the Motloutse was measured in m³ / s near Tobane , at around 40% of the catchment area (values read from the diagram).
Approximately 111,000,000 cubic meters of water flow through the river annually.
River history
The Zambezi did not flow into the Mozambique Strait about 65 million years ago . It flowed parallel to the Cuando and Okavango and, like these, emptied into the Limpopo. The Zambezi used the river bed of the Shashe , and the Cuando that of the Motloutse.
The uplift of the Ovambo-Kalahari-Zimbabwe Fault (OKZ) created a new watershed that cut off the three rivers from the Limpopo and dammed the Makgadikgada Lake .