Salt River
Salt River is a suburb of Cape Town, located near Table Bay, to the east of Cape Town's central business district. Salt River is served by a railway station of the same name, and has the postcode 7925.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Cape Town
- Also known as: “Salt River, Cape Town” and “Zoutrivier”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Community House and Dryden Street Primary School.
Community House
Community center
Photo: Axxter99, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Community House situated in Salt River, Cape Town is a unique and historic site of living heritage. It has always been known as a site of activism from around the mid-1980s which has shaped and continues to shape the socio-political landscape of its extended communities.
Groote Schuur Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Danie van der Merwe, CC BY 2.0.
Groote Schuur Hospital is a public teaching hospital situated on the slopes of Devil's Peak in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. It was founded in 1938 and is famous for being the institution where the first human-to-human heart transplant took place on the 3rd December 1967, conducted by surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Observatory and Woodstock.
Observatory
Suburb
Observatory is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa, colloquially known as Obs. Bordered by Mowbray to the south and Salt River to the northwest, the area is best known as a student neighbourhood associated with the nearby University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital.
Woodstock
Suburb
Woodstock is one of the earliest suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa, between the docks of Table Bay and the lower slopes of Devil's Peak, about 1 kilometre east of the city centre of Cape Town.
Mowbray
Suburb
Photo: Zaian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mowbray is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa and lies on the slopes of Devil's Peak. Mowbray is at a junction of several major Cape Town freeways and has an important multi-modal public transport interchange at Mowbray railway station.
Salt River
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.9317° or 33° 55′ 54″ southLongitude
18.46101° or 18° 27′ 40″ eastElevation
35 metres (115 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA ZEPOpen location code
4FRW3F96+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 262722199OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3361272Wikidata ID
Q2383969
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Salt River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Soutrivier”
- Cebuano: “Salt River”
- Chinese: “鹽河”
- Dutch: “Salt River, Cape Town”
- French: “Salt River”
- Pedi: “Salt River”
- Turkish: “Salt River”
- Urdu: “سالٹ ریور، کیپ ٹاؤن”
- Xhosa: “Salt River”
- Zulu: “Salt River”
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