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The Nahoon estuary
(32°59' S;
27°57' E)
is situated near the coastal city of East London in the Eastern Cape. The river is approximately 77 km long with a catchment area of 584 sq. km. Agriculture, mainly subsistence farming, temporary commercial dryland agriculture and commercial forestry comprised 7% of the land-cover in the Nahoon catchment. About 9% of the catchment was degraded, comprising mainly degraded grassland and bushland. Approximately 81% of the catchment was natural and consisted mainly of thicket and bushland and grassland. Urban development accounted for 3% of the land-cover and his mainly consisted of residential and industrial development associated with the coastal city of East London.
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