Cowies Hill
Cowie's Hill is a small upmarket residential suburb of Pinetown in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Its eponymous hill is a major feature in the Comrades Marathon which is held between Durban and Pietermaritzburg every year.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: town in South Africa
- Also known as: “Cowie’s Hill”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Paradise Valley and Pinetown Boys’ High School.
Paradise Valley
Nature reserve
Photo: MissMakhanya89, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Paradise Valley is a nature reserve.
Pinetown Boys’ High School
School
Pinetown Boys' High School is a public school for boys in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Westville Girls’ High School
School
Westville Girls' High School, is a state school for girls in Westville, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Classes are split based on the students’ academic ability, in order to help all students achieve their maximum potential.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pinetown and New Germany.
Pinetown
Town
Photo: landagent, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pinetown is a city that forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, based just inland from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The city is situated 16 km north-west of Durban and 64 km south-east of Pietermaritzburg.
New Germany
Suburb
New Germany is an industrial town situated just inland from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It has been incorporated firstly into Pinetown and now into eThekwini. New Germany is situated 3 km northwest of Cowies Hill.
Clermont
Town
Clermont is a township of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Clermont under the apartheid days was a black middle income township. Its immediate surroundings include KwaDabeka to the north, New Germany to the west, Westville to the south and Reservoir Hills to the east. Clermont is situated 4 km north of Cowies Hill.
Cowies Hill
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Ethekwini, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-29.82917° or 29° 49′ 45″ southLongitude
30.89861° or 30° 53′ 55″ eastElevation
334 metres (1,096 feet)Open location code
5G2G5VCX+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 262704733OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Pedi—“Cowies Hill” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Cowies Hill”
- Asturian: “Cowies Hill”
- Dutch: “Cowies Hill”
- Pedi: “Cowies Hill”
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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 “Cowies Hill”. Photo: P.Lindgren, CC BY-SA 3.0.