Southern Africa
Namibia
Kunene

Petrified Forest

The Petrified forest, located 42 kilometres west of the town of , on the C39 road, is a deposit of large tree trunks that have "turned to stone" through a process of diagenesis.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: Nambian national forest
  • Also known as: “petrified forest, Khorixas” and “Petrified forest, Khorixas”

Petrified Forest

Latitude
-20.43824° or 20° 26′ 18″ south
Longitude
14.60457° or 14° 36′ 17″ east
Open location code
5FFPHJ63+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5346544367
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q659545
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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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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 “Petrified Forest”. Photo: Olga Ernst, CC BY-SA 4.0.