Western Cape
West Coast
Bergrivier Local Municipality

Aurora

Aurora is a town on the west coast of situated 43 kilometres north-west of and 29km south of . Established in 1906, it was named after the Roman goddess of dawn.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: town
  • Also known as: “Aurora, South Africa”

Aurora

Latitude
-32.70444° or 32° 42′ 16″ south
Longitude
18.485° or 18° 29′ 6″ east
Elevation
103 metres (338 feet)
Open location code
4FVW7FWP+62
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262719123
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3370331
Wiki­data ID
Q493459
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Aurora” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aurora, Wes-Kaap”
  • Afrikaans: “Aurora”
  • Asturian: “Aurora”
  • Bulgarian: “Аурора”
  • Dutch: “Aurora”
  • Estonian: “Aurora (LAV)”
  • Estonian: “Aurora”
  • German: “Aurora”
  • Italian: “Aurora (Sudafrica)”
  • Italian: “Aurora”
  • Low German: “Aurora”
  • Pedi: “Aurora, Kapa Bodikela”
  • Pedi: “Aurora”
  • Romanian: “Aurora, Western Cape”
  • Urdu: “ارورا، مغربی کیپ”
  • Zulu: “I-Aurora, INtshonalanga Kapa”

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Notable Places Nearby

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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 “Aurora”. Photo: Ralph Malan, CC BY 2.0.