GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Orange River flows from east to west across South Africa. It flows through the Eastern Cape, Free State, and Northern Cape provinces. The river flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Alexander Bay in the Northern Cape. The Vaal and Caledon rivers are two main tributaries of the Orange River.

Detailed explanation-2: -South Africa’s longest and major river, rising in the Drakensberg in Lesotho (where it is known as the Senqu) it flows westward for 2200 km, where it finally reaches the Atlantic Ocean at Alexander Bay.

Detailed explanation-3: -The colonial name of “The Orange” was given to the river in 1779 by a Dutch VOC official, Robert Jacob Gordon, who named it after the Dutch Royal House of Orange in honour of William V. The source of the river is at 3000 m above sea level in Lesotho in the beautiful Maluti / Drakensberg Mountains.

Detailed explanation-4: -Now it receives most of its very occasional flows from its tributaries in the northern Cape province of South Africa [61]. The Orange River forms the border between the south of Namibia and South Africa.