Rooiberg
Rooiberg is a locality in Kunene, Namibia.Places of Interest
Highlights include Petrified Forest.
Petrified Forest
Photo: Olga Ernst, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Petrified forest, located 42 kilometres west of the Namibian town of Khorixas, on the C39 road, is a deposit of large tree trunks that have "turned to stone" through a process of diagenesis. Petrified Forest is situated 3½ km northeast of Rooiberg.
Rooiberg
- Type: Locality
- Location: Kunene, Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-20.46363° or 20° 27′ 49″ southLongitude
14.58567° or 14° 35′ 8″ eastElevation
697 metres (2,287 feet)Open location code
5FFPGHPP+G7GeoNames ID
12784398
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