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Tugela River

river in South Africa
River Q476317

Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
river

Location

Country
South Africa[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -28.750°, 28.896°, 🗺️ -28.765°, 28.876°, 🗺️ -29.224°, 31.500°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
KwaZulu-Natal[2]

Population and size

Length
+520[11]
More facts +5
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9][10]
Discharge
+170.0[13]
Mouth of the watercourse
Indian Ocean[4]
Tributary
Buffalo River, Mooi River, Bushman's River, Bloukrans River[5][6][7][8]
Watershed area
+29100[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Tugela River cs Tugela de Thukela River de UThukela River de Thukela el Ποταμός Τουγκέλα el Τουγκέλα el Τουκέλα es Rio Tugela es Río Tugela fa رود توگلا fi Thukela fi Tugela-joki fr Rivière Tugela he נהר טוגלה hi तुगेला नदी id Sungai Tugela ja ツゲラ川 ja トゥゲラ川 nl Tugelarivier
🔖 Identifiers · 14
VIAF cluster ID
246967510
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh93006542
GND ID
4645738-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Tugela Falls.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Tugela-River
Freebase ID
/m/02ngdv
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1292560
GeoNames ID
947660
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4218762
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
tugela-20b9ef
J9U entity ID
987007539412705171
Topic's main category
Category:Tugela River
Show all 14 identifiers +2
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["River", "Tugela::x9m9h"]
Yale LUX ID
place/29bd9af3-c881-4570-a97d-5165f3eac999
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Johannesburg 2026-09-26 H/STM · ZA GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Tributary 4
Buffalo River, Bushman's River, Bloukrans River, Mooi River
← Mouth of the watercourse 4
Buffalo River, Bushman's River, Bloukrans River, Mooi River
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Continent 1
Africa
Country 1
South Africa
Has these parts 1
Tugela Falls
Instance of 1
river
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
KwaZulu-Natal
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Indian Ocean
← Crosses 1
Spioenkop Dam
← Inflows 1
Indian Ocean
← Located in or next to body of water 1
Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme
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Summary

Tugela River is a river[1].

Related Entities

South Africa

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 19w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Continent → —
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #38692: Remove redundant P30, P17 is present"
  2. 20w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Tugela River
    Continent → —
    Watershed area → 29,100 square kilometre
    Coordinate location → -28.750°, 28.896°, -28.765°, 28.876°, -29.224°, 31.500°
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed labels, descriptions or aliases: import labels from sitelinks"
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