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The Mvoti estuary
(29°24' S;
31°20' E)
is situated north of the coastal city of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. The river is approximately 197 km long with a catchment area of 2 829 sq. km. About 57% of the Mvoti catchment was under agriculture. This mainly comprised commercial forestry and sugar cane as well as commercial dryland agriculture and subsistence farming. Around 7% of the catchment consisted of degraded bushland and grassland while approximately 35% was natural. This consisted mainly of bushland and grassland with some forest. Urban development accounted for 1% of the catchment land-cover and this was largely residential development, smallholdings and commercial and industrial development mainly associated with the town of Stanger in the lower catchment and Greytown in the upper catchment.
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