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Komatipoort

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Komatipoort is a town located on the confluence of the Crocodile and Komati Rivers in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town is 8 km from the Crocodile Bridge Gate into the Kruger Park, and just five km from the Mozambique border and 65 km from the Eswatini border. It is a small, quiet metropolis in the Lowveld with a few appealing tree covered streets. It is one of the freshest towns in South Africa wherein temperatures can attain nearly 48°C within the top of summer season, however also with a great iciness weather round 24 °C. 'Komati' takes its name from the Komati River whose unique local Swazi name is Nkomazi, translated as "river of cows".

It is where the Crocodile and Komati Rivers meet to drift through the 'Poort' thru the Lebombo Mountains into Mozambique. In the Nineties Komatipoort of those days was a wild and uproarious production camp for the railway being constructed from Lourenco Marques. Conditions weren’t the best with the location become gripped by means of a malaria epidemic; it changed into in the zone referred to as 'fever country'. Komatipoort changed into the last forestall within the South African Republic Pretoria - Delagoa Bay Line constructed via the Netherlands-South African Railway Company with the first educate crossing the border at Komatipoort from the ZAR to Portuguese East Africa on 1 July 1891 after the of entirety of the rail bridge over the Komati River.

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