Tarkastad
Tarkastad is a Karoo semi-urban settlement situated on the banks of Tarka River in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Tarkastad is on a plain to the north of the Winterberg mountain range on the R61 between Cradock and Komani and only three hours from Gqeberha.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dutch Reformed Church, Tarkastad and Martje Venter Hospital.
Dutch Reformed Church, Tarkastad
Church
The Dutch Reformed Church in Tarkastad is the 23rd congregationof the Dutch Reformed Church that was founded in the present Synod of Eastern Cape, but currently it is the 19th oldest congregation because the congregations Middelburg, Komga, Greykerk and Alice, which are all older if Tarkastad was, no longer exists.
Martje Venter Hospital
Hospital
Martje Venter Hospital is a Provincial government funded hospital for the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality area in Tarkastad in South Africa. The hospital departments include Emergency department, Out Patients Department, Paediatric ward, Maternity ward…
Tarkastad
- Type: Town with 1,600 residents
- Description: town
- Category: locality
- Location: Tsolwana Local Municipality, Chris Hani District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-32.00722° or 32° 0′ 26″ southLongitude
26.26056° or 26° 15′ 38″ eastPopulation
1,600Elevation
1,300 metres (4,265 feet)Inception
1864Open location code
4GV8X7V6+46OpenStreetMap ID
node 207089401OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Tarkastad” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tarkastad”
- Asturian: “Tarkastad”
- Cebuano: “Tarkastad (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Tarkastad”
- Chinese: “塔卡斯塔德”
- Danish: “Tarkastad”
- Dutch: “Tarkastad”
- Estonian: “Tarkastad”
- French: “Tarkastad”
- German: “Tarkastad”
- Italian: “Tarkastad”
- Japanese: “タルカスタッド”
- Pedi: “Tarkastad”
- Romanian: “Tarkastad”
- Zulu: “ITarkastad”
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