Howick
Howick is a town of 22,000 people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The town is the location of Howick Falls, which is a large waterfall that occurs when the Umgeni River falls 95 metres over dolerite cliffs on its way to the Indian Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 32,500 residents
- Description: town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Also known as: “Howick, KwaZulu-Natal” and “Howick, South Africa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Howick Falls and Howick High School.
Howick Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Howick Falls is a waterfall in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The waterfall is approximately 95 m in height and lies on the Umgeni River. The Zulu people called the falls KwaNogqaza, which means "Place of the Tall One".
Howick High School
School
Howick High School is a coeducational public school in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, established on 27 June 1967. Whilst it has a weekly boarding facility, known as Midmar House, which can accommodate up to 100 students who live in the local surrounding districts, Howick High School is not a full-time boarding school.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Merrivale.
Merrivale
Suburb
Merrivale is a town in Umgungundlovu District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Village 145 km north-west of Durban and 5 km south-east of Howick. Named after Herman Merrivale, Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1848. Merrivale is situated 4 km southeast of Howick.
Howick
Latitude
-29.4836° or 29° 29′ 1″ southLongitude
30.2242° or 30° 13′ 27″ eastPopulation
32,500Elevation
1,048 metres (3,438 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA HOWOpen location code
5G2GG68F+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 262720635OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Howick” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Howick”
- Arabic: “هويك”
- Asturian: “Howick”
- Cebuano: “Howick (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Howick”
- Chinese: “豪伊克”
- Danish: “Howick”
- Dutch: “Howick”
- Esperanto: “Howick”
- French: “Howick”
- German: “Howick”
- Indonesian: “Howick, Afrika Selatan”
- Italian: “Howick”
- Pedi: “Howick”
- Polish: “Howick”
- Romanian: “Howick, Africa de Sud”
- Russian: “Ховик”
- Russian: “Хоуик”
- Spanish: “Howick (Sudáfrica)”
- Spanish: “Howick”
- Swedish: “Howick”
- Urdu: “ہاویک، کوازولو ناتال”
- Zulu: “IHowick”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Howick”. Photo: Stevan.Karalic, CC BY 3.0.