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How long is the Orange River

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How long is the Orange River

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    Orange

    River in South Africa, rising at the Mont-aux-Sources in the Maluti Mountains in Lesotho and flowing west to the Atlantic Ocean; length 2,100 km/1,300 mi. It runs along the southern boundary of the Free State Province. Water from the Orange is diverted via the Orange-Fish River Tunnel (1975) to irrigate the semi-arid Eastern Cape Province. It was named in 1779 after William of Orange.

    The Orange flows through a deep channel for almost its entire length; only in the Boegoeberg-Augrabies Falls section does the valley open out, and almost all the irrigable alluvial land is concentrated here. The watershed cannot be determined accurately in the Kalahari, but the drainage basin is about 850,000 sq km/328,000 sq mi. Tributaries include the Vaal and the Caledon. In its lower course the Orange forms the boundary between South Africa and Namibia.

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  2. 2200km Starts at the Drakensburg to Oranjemund at the West coast of S.A. an South West Africa

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