Overport
Overport is a hilly residential area in Durban, South Africa. The name Overport is commonly used to refer to the suburbs of Overport, Sydenham, part of Sparks and parts of Essenwood; with the part of Sydenham west of Brickfield Road, and north of Sparks Road, usually called Asherville rather than Overport.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Durban Botanic Gardens and Jameson Park and Rose Garden.
Durban Botanic Gardens
Garden
Photo: Michaelwild, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Durban Botanic Gardens is situated in the city of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is Durban's oldest public institution and Africa's oldest surviving botanical gardens. The gardens cover an area of 15 hectares in a subtropical climate.
Jameson Park and Rose Garden
Park
Jameson Park and Rose Garden is a rose garden located in Durban, South Africa. Once being a pineapple plantation, it currently possesses about 200 species of roses which are prominent in the South African Spring months of September to November.
Greyville Racecourse
Stadium
Hollywoodbets Greyville Racecourse is a Thoroughbred horse race track in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The 2,800 metre pear-shaped turf track consists of several gradient features: it is run uphill from the 2,400 metre mark to the 1,800 metre mark, after which it slopes gently downward for approximately the next 800 metres then uphill again into the nearly flat 500 metre homestretch.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Essenwood and Sydenham.
Essenwood
Suburb
Essenwood is a central suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, approximately 3 kilometres north-west of the city centre. It is administered by the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, the municipality governing Durban and its surrounding suburbs.
Musgrave
Suburb
Musgrave is a central suburb of Durban, South Africa. It is situated inland and north-west of the Durban CBD, and forms part of the suburban belt known as the Berea.
Overport
- Type: Suburb
- Description: human settlement in South Africa
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Ethekwini, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-29.83444° or 29° 50′ 4″ southLongitude
31.00167° or 31° 0′ 6″ eastElevation
125 metres (410 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA RPTOpen location code
5G2H5282+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 262714436OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
966931Wikidata ID
Q7113868
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Dutch—“Overport” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Overport”
- Asturian: “Overport”
- Dutch: “Overport”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Palm Ridge and Sydenham.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Granger Park and Durban Business College.
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