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The Nqabara estuary
(32°20' S;
28°47' E)
lies south of the coastal town of Port St Johns on the Transkei coast of the Eastern Cape. This system drains a catchment area of approximately 578 sq. km. Approximately 25% of the Nqabara catchment was under agriculture, mainly subsistence farming with some commercial forest also present. Degraded grassland comprised 3% of the catchment land-cover while 67% was natural. Natural land-cover was mostly grassland, bushland, and some forest. About 5% of the catchment comprised mainly residential (rural) development with quarries also present.
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