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The Mlalazi estuary
(28°57' S;
31°49' E)
is located just south of Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal. The river is approximately 54 km long with a catchment area of 492 sq. km. Approximately 46% of the catchment land-cover of the Mlalazi system was agriculture and consisted mainly subsistence farming, sugar cane and commercial forestry. The catchment did not appear to be degraded and about 53% was natural. This comprised grassland, bushland and forest. About 1% of the catchment was urban comprising mainly the residential and industrial developments associated with of the coastal village of Mtunzini and the town of Eshowe further inland.
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