Petrified Forest
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.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Nambian national forest
- Also known as: “petrified forest, Khorixas” and “Petrified forest, Khorixas”
Petrified Forest
- Categories: petrified forest and tourism
- Location: Kunene, Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-20.43824° or 20° 26′ 18″ south
Longitude
14.60457° or 14° 36′ 17″ east
Open location code
5FFPHJ63+PR
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OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Turkish—“Petrified Forest” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Versteende woud, Khorixas”
- French: “Forêt pétrifiée du Damaraland”
- Fulah: “Dentuɗe, Khorixas”
- German: “Versteinerter Wald”
- Italian: “foresta pietrificata di Khorixas”
- Italian: “Foresta pietrificata di Khorixas”
- Slovenian: “Okameneli gozd, Khorixas”
- Slovenian: “Okameneli gozd”
- Turkish: “Taşlaşmış orman, Khorixas”
- Turkish: “Taşlaşmış orman”
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