Augrabies Falls

South Africa / Northern Cape / Upington /
 waterfall, interesting place
The Augrabies Falls is a waterfall on the Orange River, South Africa, within the Augrabies Falls National Park. It totals 191 metres in two drops. The original Hottentot residents named the waterfall Ankoerebis, "place of big noises", from which the Trek Boers, who settled here later on, derived the name Augrabies.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augrabies_Falls
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Coordinates:   28°35'24"S   20°19'53"E
This article was last modified 15 years ago