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Leeu-Gamka in the Groot Karoo, South Africa.
More a crossroads than a confluence, Leeu means lion in Afrikaans and Gamka means lion in the !xam language. Leeu-Gamka, where these rivers meet, is not much more that a truck stop today on the road that led from Cape Town to the diamond fields and later the gold mines of the north-eastern interior. Long before that, to the indigene populations, the intermittent river was a vital resource between the Klein Karoo to the east, and the arid reaches of the southern Kalahari to the north.
History continues to meet here.

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