South African Coat-of-armsDEAT: Directorate Environmental Information and ReportingSA Estuaries: Catchment Land-Cover
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Kosi Bay Catchment

Generalised Land-cover

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Kosi Bay Estuary: General Land-Cover

The Kosi Bay estuary (26°54' S; 32°53' E) is situated on the east (KwaZulu-Natal) coast near the Mozambique border. This system has a catchment area of approximately 304 sq. km. Approximately 13% of the Kosi Bay catchment was under agriculture, mostly subsistence farming. Roughly 23 % of the catchment was degraded, comprising degraded grassland and forest while about 64% was natural, and generally consisted of grassland, waterbodies (the Kosi lakes), forest, and forest and woodland. There did not appear to be any major development in the catchment.

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