Treur River

Its ultimate origin is inside the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve, though most of its course is to the west of this protected area.

There are two sharp drops in its course, at Poe Falls 24°45′S 30°52′E / 24.750°S 30.867°E / -24.750; 30.867 and Bourke's Luck Potholes respectively.

Treur means "mourning"[1] in Dutch, and was thus named during a voortrekker expedition.

In 1844, while still under the misapprehension that Hendrik Potgieter and his party had perished on their journey to Delagoa Bay, their distraught relatives named the river near their encampment, Treurrivier, or 'mourning river'.

It was thought to be driven to extinction by the introduction of exotic fish, but was rediscovered in the Blyde River in 1985.