Klapmuts

Klapmuts is a railway station in Stellenbosch, Cape Winelands District Municipality, Western Cape. Klapmuts is situated near Historic hotel (threatened heritage asset-Grade IIIa), as well as near the police station SA Police.

Type: Railway station
Description: South African railway station
Also known as: “gare de Klapmuts”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Drakenstein Lion Park.

Drakenstein Lion Park

Zoo

Drakenstein Lion Park is a zoological park in Drakenstein, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1998 to keep lions which could not be rehabilitated into the wilderness, and was meant to replace the now-defunct Tygerberg Zoo, which housed possible descendants of the Cape lion, amongst other animals. Drakenstein Lion Park is situated 4 km east of Klapmuts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Klapmuts and Simondium.

Klapmuts

Village

Photo: Abu Shawka, CC0.

Klapmuts is the name of both a hill, and a town which formed at its foot. They are located in Cape Winelands District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Simondium

Village

Simondium is a hamlet 8 kilometres south of Paarl in western South Africa. It was named after Pierre Simond, Huguenot minister at the Cape. Simondium is situated 9 km southeast of Klapmuts.

Klapmuts

Categories: station and transport
Location: Stellenbosch, Cape Winelands District Municipality, Cape Winelands, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude

-33.80631° or 33° 48′ 23″ south

Longitude

18.86974° or 18° 52′ 11″ east

Network

Metrorail Western Cape

Open location code

4FRW5VV9+FV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 33501350

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=station

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=station

Wikidata ID

Q124401998

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to French—“Klapmuts” goes by many names.

Afrikaans: “Klapmuts”
French: “Klapmuts”

Places with the Same Name

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Historic hotel (threatened heritage asset-Grade IIIa) and SA Police.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Klapmuts and Boland Concrete.

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