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Western Cape

South Africa

The province is topographically exceptionally diverse. Most of the province falls within the Cape Fold Belt, a set of nearly parallel ranges of sandstone folded mountains of Cambrian-Ordovician age (the age of the rocks is from 510 to about 330 million years ago; their folding into mountains occurred about 350…

Average elevation: 581 m

Bird Island

South Africa > Eastern Cape

Average elevation: 0 m

Marion Island

South Africa

Average elevation: 180 m

Touws River

South Africa > Western Cape > Cape Winelands District Municipality > Breede Valley Local Municipality

Touws River is located at an elevation of 770 metres (2,530 ft) on the southwestern edge of the Great Karoo, east of the Hex River Mountains and north of the Langeberg, at the point where the Donkeys River flows into the Touws River. It lies just to the south of the N1 highway, 180 kilometres (110 mi) by road…

Average elevation: 822 m

Kreeftebaai

South Africa > Western Cape

Average elevation: 4 m

Rocklands Bay

South Africa > Western Cape > Cape Town

Average elevation: 39 m

Touwsberg

South Africa > Western Cape > George

Average elevation: 1,125 m

Kouga River

South Africa > Eastern Cape

Average elevation: 505 m

Knysna

South Africa > Western Cape > George

Average elevation: 95 m

Komati River

South Africa

The river originates west of Carolina, rising at an elevation of about 1,800 m (5,906 ft) near Breyten in the Ermelo district of the Mpumalanga province. It flows in a general northeasterly direction and reaches the Indian Ocean at Maputo Bay, after a course of some 800 km (497 mi).

Average elevation: 477 m

Cape Fold Mountains

South Africa > Western Cape > Central Karoo District Municipality > Prince Albert Local Municipality

The degree to which the original Cape Fold mountains (formed during the Carboniferous and early Permian Periods) have been eroded is attested to by the fact that the 1 km high Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula is a syncline mountain, meaning that it formed part of the bottom of a valley when the Cape…

Average elevation: 1,419 m

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