Blombos Cave

Blombos Cave is an archaeological site located in Blombos Private Nature Reserve, about 300 km east of on the Southern Cape coastline, .
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  • …lies at an elevation of 211 metres (692 feet)
  • Description: archaeological site in Western Cape, South Africa

Blombos Cave

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Latitude
-34.36696° or 34° 22′ 1″ south
Longitude
21.24577° or 21° 14′ 45″ east
Open location code
4GQ3J6MW+68
Geo­Names ID
1018620
Wiki­data ID
Q884971

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Blombos Cave” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Blombosgrot”
  • Arabic: “كهف بلومبوس”
  • Belarusian: “Бломбас”
  • Catalan: “Cova de Blombos”
  • Chinese: “布隆伯斯洞穴”
  • Chinese: “布隆伯斯洞窟”
  • Czech: “Blombos”
  • Czech: “Jeskyně Blombos”
  • Dutch: “Blombos Grot”
  • Dutch: “Blombosgrot”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كهف بلومبوس”
  • Finnish: “Blombosluola”
  • French: “Blombos”
  • French: “Grotte de Blombos”
  • German: “Blombos-Höhle”
  • Greek: “Σπήλαιο Μπλόμπος”
  • Hebrew: “מערת בלומבוס”
  • Italian: “Blombos”
  • Japanese: “ブロンボス洞窟”
  • Japanese: “ボロンボス洞窟”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blombos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blombos”
  • Norwegian: “Blombos-grotten”
  • Persian: “غار بلومبوس”
  • Polish: “Jaskinia Blombos”
  • Portuguese: “Caverna Blombos”
  • Russian: “Бломбос”
  • Russian: “Пещера Бломбос”
  • Serbian: “Blombos pećina”
  • Slovak: “Blombos”
  • Slovenian: “Blombos”
  • Spanish: “Blombos Cave”
  • Spanish: “Cueva de Blombos”
  • Swedish: “Blombosgrottan”
  • Turkish: “Blombos Mağarası”
  • Ukrainian: “Бломбос”
  • Vietnamese: “Động Blombos”
  • Vietnamese: “Hang Blombos”

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