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Orinoco Destination Guide

Discover Orinoco in South Africa

Orinoco in the region of Limpopo is a town located in South Africa - some 193 mi or ( 310 km ) East of Pretoria , the country's capital .

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Local time in Orinoco is now 06:21 PM (Saturday) . The local timezone is named " Africa/Johannesburg " with a UTC offset of 2 hours. Depending on your flexibility, these larger cities might be interesting for you: Butha-Buthe, Francistown, Piggs Peak, Mbabane, and Manzini. When in this area, you might want to check out Butha-Buthe . Are you looking for some initial hints on what might be interesting in Orinoco ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Interesting facts about this location

Injaka Dam

Injaka Dam, also spelled Inyaka Dam is an earth-fill type dam located on the Marite River, near Hazyview, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 2001 and its primary purpose is to serve for irrigation use. The hazard potential of the dam has been ranked to be high (3).

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Located at -24.88 31.08 (Lat./Long.); Less than 13 km away
Tags: Dams completed in 2002, Dams in South Africa

Treur River

The Treur River is a small river in the Drakensberg escarpment region of eastern Mpumalanga province, South Africa. It is nowhere far from the R532 motor route, which intersects it twice. Its ultimate origin is inside the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve, though most of its course is to the west of this protected area. It is a tributary of the Blyde River, and has no major tributaries of its own.

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Located at -24.75 30.87 (Lat./Long.); Less than 22 km away
Tags: Rivers of South Africa

Deneys Reitz

Deneys Reitz (1882—1944), son of Francis William Reitz, was a Boer soldier, later a South African soldier in the First World War, and a politician. While in exile in Madagascar, he wrote about his experience of the Second Boer War (1899–1902), so that, when it was eventually edited and published in 1929 as Commando: A Boer Journal Of The Boer War, it still had the freshness and detail of an account written soon after the war.

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Located at -24.57 30.89 (Lat./Long.); Less than 29 km away
Tags: 1882 births, 1944 deaths, Afrikaner people, Alumni of Grey College, Bloemfontein, Ambassadors of South Africa to the United Kingdom, Boer military personnel of the Second Boer War, British Army personnel of World War I, Government ministers of South Africa, Members of the House of Assembly of South Africa, Royal Scots Fusiliers officers, South African Army officers, South African military personnel of World War I, White South African people