Blue Downs
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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. Eersterivier Secondary School is situated 3½ km southeast of Blue Downs.
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 3½ km southeast of Blue Downs.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mfuleni and Khayelitsha.
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.
Khayelitsha
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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.
Delft
Suburb
Delft is a residential area in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. It is situated next to the Cape Town International Airport, Belhar, and Blue Downs. Delft is situated 6 km northwest of Blue Downs.
Blue Downs
- Type: Town with 150,000 residents
- Description: suburb of Cape Town, South Africa
- Categories: South African township and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-34° or 34° southLongitude
18.6975° or 18° 41′ 51″ eastPopulation
150,000Elevation
70 metres (230 feet)Open location code
4FRW2M2W+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 262719349OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
11205114Wikidata ID
Q4804351
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Blue Downs” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Blue Downs”
- French: “Blue Downs”
- German: “Blue Downs”
- Pedi: “Blue Downs”
- Swedish: “Blue Downs”
- Turkish: “Blue Downs”
- Xhosa: “Blue Downs”
- Zulu: “Blue Downs”
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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 “Blue Downs”. Photo: Discott, CC BY-SA 3.0.