Eerste River
Eerste River is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa and a suburb of the City of Cape Town. It forms part of the Eastern Suburbs zone of the city situated behind the Stellenbosch/Vlaeberg Hills on the eastern outskirts of the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 30,000 residents
- Description: suburb of Cape Town, South Africa
- Also known as: “Eerste River Village”, “Eerste River, Western Cape”, “Eerste Rivier”, “Eersteriver”, and “Eersterivier”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eersterivier Secondary School and IThemba LABS.
Eersterivier Secondary School
School
Eersteriver Secondary School is an Afrikaans-medium school in Eerste River in the Western Cape, South Africa.
IThemba LABS
Research institute
iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences is a scientific research centre with plants at Faure near Cape Town and on the Wits Campus in Johannesburg. IThemba LABS is situated 2½ km south of Eerste River.
Cape Town Film Studios
Recording studio
Cape Town Film Studios is a film and television studio in Cape Town, South Africa. It opened in May 2010. The 200-hectare studio, located about 30 kilometres from the centre of Cape Town, has been involved in the production of a number of blockbusters, including Chronicle, Dredd, Mad Max: Fury Road, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Tomb Raider, Bloodshot and Monster Hunter. Cape Town Film Studios is situated 3½ km south of Eerste River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blue Downs and Mfuleni.
Blue Downs
Town
Photo: Discott, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blue Downs is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa. It forms part of the Eastern Suburbs Zone of the City of Cape Town situated on the eastern outskirts of the city and is also located on the Cape Flats, a flat expanse of land east of Cape Town.
Mfuleni
Suburb
Photo: Discott, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mfuleni is a relatively new township about 32 kilometres from central Cape Town, South Africa. It is a predominantly Black township, although there are also some Coloured members of the community. Mfuleni is situated 4 km west of Eerste River.
Khayelitsha
Photo: FreddieA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Khayelitsha is in South Africa. Khayelitsha is situated next to the N2, which connects Cape Town with George. It's close to Cape Town International Airport.
Eerste River
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-34° or 34° southLongitude
18.72167° or 18° 43′ 18″ eastPopulation
30,000Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)Open location code
4FRW2P2C+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 262719974OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3368156Wikidata ID
Q4854168
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Eerste River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Eersterivier”
- Cebuano: “Eersterivier”
- Dutch: “Eerste Rivier”
- French: “Eerste River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eerste River”
- Pedi: “Eerste River, Cape Town”
- Portuguese: “Rio Eerste”
- Turkish: “Eerste Rivier”
- Welsh: “Afon Eerste”
- Xhosa: “Eerste River, Cape Town”
- Zulu: “Eerste River, Cape Town”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Eerste River Hospital and SA Post Office.
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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 “Eerste River”. Photo: HelenOnline, CC BY-SA 3.0.