Tygerberg
Tygerberg is a district in the northern suburbs of Cape Town in South Africa. It is also the name of the range of hills in the area. The main Tygerberg farms were Pampoenkraal, Stellenburgh, Evertsdal, De Grendel, Lebenstijn, Blommensteijn, Door de Kraal, Vissershok and Clara Anna Fontein.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Railway station
- Description: town
- Also known as: “Tierberg”, “Tigerberg”, “Tijgerberg”, and “Tygersberg”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tygerberg Hospital and The Settlers High School.
Tygerberg Hospital
Hospital
Tygerberg Hospital is a tertiary public hospital located in Parow. The hospital was officially opened in 1976 and is the largest district general hospital in the Western Cape and the second largest hospital in South Africa, with the capacity for 1899 beds. Tygerberg Hospital is situated 1¼ km southeast of Tygerberg.
The Settlers High School
School
Photo: Barry Ne, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Settlers High School is a public English medium co-educational high school situated in Bellville which is in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The high school was established in 1965. The Settlers High School is situated 1¼ km northeast of Tygerberg.
Tygerberg High School
School
Photo: Barry Ne, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hoërskool Tygerberg is a public Afrikaans-English medium co-educational high school situated in Parow in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is a government-funded school, established in 1954. Tygerberg High School is situated 1½ km north of Tygerberg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parow and Norwood.
Parow
Town
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Parow is the suburb of the City of Cape Town in the Western Cape, South Africa and a Northern Suburb of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality founded by Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Parow who arrived in the locality in 1865.
Norwood
Suburb
Norwood is a suburb of Cape Town, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Norwood is situated 3 km southwest of Tygerberg.
Ruyterwacht
Suburb
Ruyterwacht is a northern suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, bordering the industrial area of Epping and the formerly Cape Coloured neighborhood of Elsie's River as well as the GrandWest Casino. Ruyterwacht is situated 4½ km west of Tygerberg.
Tygerberg
- Categories: neighborhood, building, station, and transportation
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.90775° or 33° 54′ 28″ southLongitude
18.60127° or 18° 36′ 5″ eastElevation
47 metres (154 feet)Open location code
4FRW3JR2+WGOpenStreetMap ID
way 785852536OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Tygerberg” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tygerberg”
- Chinese: “蒂赫贝赫”
- Dutch: “Tygerberg”
- German: “Tygerberg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tygerberg”
- Norwegian: “Tygerberg”
- Pedi: “Tygerberg”
- Turkish: “Tygerberg”
- Xhosa: “Tygerberg”
- Zulu: “Tygerberg”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tygerberg”. Photo: Dfmalan, CC BY 3.0.