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The longest river in South Africa, rising in the Lesotho highlands and flowing roughly 2,200 kilometers west to the Atlantic, forming part of the country's border with Namibia along its lower course. It is a critical source of irrigation water and hydroelectric power in an otherwise arid region.

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