Cape Fold Mountains
The Cape Fold Belt is a 1,300 kilometres long fold-and-thrust mountain belt along the western and southern coastlines of Western Cape, South Africa. The Cape Fold Belt formed during the Permian period in the late Paleozoic age, affecting the sequence…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain range
- Description: late Paleozoic fold and thrust belt in southwestern South Africa
- Also known as: “Cape Fold Belt”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Swartberg Pass.
Swartberg Pass
Mountain saddle
The Swartberg Pass on the R328 runs over the Swartberg mountain range which runs roughly east–west along the northern edge of the semi-arid area called the Little Karoo in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It's the only road access to Gamkaskloof.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Matjiesrivier.
Matjiesrivier
Village
Matjiesrivier is a town at the southern foot of the Waboomsberg, some 37 km south of Prince Albert, off the road to Oudtshoorn. Afrikaans for 'mat river', the reference is to a type of sedge growing there, used by Khoekhoen in making mats with which they made their huts.
Cape Fold Mountains
Latitude
-33.3333° or 33° 20′ southLongitude
22° eastOpen location code
4GR4M282+M2OpenStreetMap ID
node 11234172954OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_rangeWikidata ID
Q2334182
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Cape Fold Mountains” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kaapse Plooigordel”
- Armenian: “Կապի լեռնաշղթա”
- Armenian: “Կապի լեռներ”
- Asturian: “Cape Fold Belt”
- Belarusian: “Капскія горы”
- Bulgarian: “Капски планини”
- Catalan: “Cinturó de plegaments del Cap”
- Chinese: “开普褶皱带”
- Czech: “Kapské hory”
- Dutch: “Cape Fold Belt”
- French: “ceinture plissée du Cap”
- French: “Ceinture plissée du Cap”
- Georgian: “კაპის მთები”
- German: “Kap-Faltengürtel”
- Italian: “Cape Fold Belt”
- Italian: “Cintura di pieghe del Capo”
- Kazakh: “Кап таулары”
- Kirghiz: “Кап тоолору”
- Korean: “케이프 습곡대”
- Ladin: “Cape Fold Belt”
- Lithuanian: “Kapo kalnai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kappbeltet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kappbeltet”
- Polish: “Góry Przylądkowe”
- Russian: “Капские горы”
- Slovak: “Kapské vrchy”
- Slovenian: “Cape Fold Belt”
- Spanish: “Cinturón de Pliegues del Cabo”
- Swahili: “Ukanda wa kunjamano wa rasi”
- Ukrainian: “Капські гори”
- Uzbek: “Kap togʻlari”
- Venetian: “Cape Fold Belt”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ou Tol and Bothas Hoek.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Waboomsberg and Platberg.
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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 “Cape Fold Mountains”. Photo: Babakathy, Public domain.