SABIE RIVER: Overview

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The Sabie sub-catchment is dominated by irrigation and forestry, although urban requirements are becoming increasingly significant as water services are being provided to what were formerly considered to be rural communities – now considered to be semi-urban. (Ref1)
The Sabie River flows through the Kruger National Park, and is ecologically very important for the Park. (Ref 1)
"The Sabie River has its source at 2 130 m above mean sea level in the Drakensberg Escarpment, drops into the lowveld and joins the Sand River inside the Kruger National Park."(www.csir.co.za/rhp/state_of_rivers/state_of_crocsabieolif_01/sabie_eco.html)
The Sabie River is the main stream of the catchment, with the Sand and Marite Rivers acting as major tributaries, and the Mac Mac River being a tertiary drainage. The Sabie River rises in the west of the catchment in the Drakensberg mountains north of the Long Tom pass at an altitude of about 2200 m. (Ref 2)
The Sabie River has a total length of about 230 km to its confluence with the Incomati River in Mozambique , at an altitude of about 40m a.m.s.l. (Deacon, 1996).
  References                                      

Ref 1: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, South Africa. 2004. DWAF Report No. P WMA 05/000/00/0303: Internal Strategic Perspectives: Inkomati Water Management Area – Version 1 (March 2004). Tlou & Matji (Pty) Ltd.

Ref 2:  WATER RESEARCH COMMISSION (WRC), (2001). State of the Rivers Report - Crocodile, Sabie-Sand & Olifants River System. WRC Report No. TT 147/01: 39pp.

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