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The Sundays estuary
(33°43' S;
25°51' E)
is located northeast of the coastal city of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. The river is approximately 481 km long with a catchment area of 20 990 sq. km. About 3% of the catchment land-cover in the Sundays system was under agriculture, mostly temporary commercial dryland agriculture, temporary commercial irrigated agriculture, improved grassland, and commercial forestry. Approximately 3% of the catchment was degraded, comprising mainly degraded shrubland and bushland. Most of the Sundays catchment was natural (94%), consisting of shrubland, bushland and grassland. Very little of the catchment was urban (less than 1%) and this consisted mainly of residential development with some industry. The only major town in the Sundays catchment was Graaf Reinet in the upper catchment with smaller towns such as Kirkwood, Jansenville and Pearston occurring in the middle to upper catchment.
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