VERLOREVLEI RIVER: Overview

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The mouth is approximately 70 km south of the Olifants River mouth. The catchment area is approximately 2000 sq.km. This river ends in the Verlorevlei Wetland, an important ecological system of the West Coast.
The catchment is about 87 km long in a north-west to south-east direction, and up to 43 km wide.
The catchment is bounded by the Swartberg and Olifantsrivierberge in the east and by the Piketberg in the south, and includes the Eendekuil basin, a low-lying area lying between the Olifantsrivierberge and the Piketberg. The Verlorenvlei River and its tributaries drain the entire Eendekuil basin, the Table Mountain Group mountains around Paleisheuwel, the northern outliers of Piketberg, the extensive flats of Tertiary to Recent sands between Het Kruis and Redelinghuys and the 5km strip of low Table Mountain Group hills and sand flats on either side of the lake which contribute seepage (Ref. 1).
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Ref 1:  Estuaries of the Cape: Report 32 VERLORENVLE(CW 13)CSIR RESEARCH REPORT 431
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