Ascon Site Office
Ascon Site Office is a castle in Camdeboo Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape. Ascon Site Office is situated nearby to the monument Andries Pretorius Memorial, as well as near the reservoir Nqweba Dam.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Camdeboo National Park and Hester Rupert Art Museum.
Camdeboo National Park
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Camdeboo National Park is in Karoo Heartland of South Africa. It is most famous for the Valley of Desolation, where breathtaking cliffs and columns of rock form a haven for dozens of birds species.
Hester Rupert Art Museum
Museum
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Hester Rupert Art Museum is situated 1½ km south of Ascon Site Office.
Nqweba Dam
Reservoir
Nqweba Dam, is an earth-fill type dam located on the Sundays River in the Camdeboo National Park, in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was opened in 1925. Nqweba Dam is situated 3 km northwest of Ascon Site Office.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Graaff-Reinet and Kroonvale.
Graaff-Reinet
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Graaff-Reinet is a town of 36,000 people in the Karoo Heartland. A touch of history wafts around the old houses, the small church and the busy main street of Graaff-Reinet.
Kroonvale
Suburb
Graaff-Reinet is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is the oldest town in the province and the fourth oldest town in South Africa, after Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Simon's Town, Paarl and Swellendam. Kroonvale is situated 3½ km southeast of Ascon Site Office.
Adendorp
Suburb
Adendorp is a village 8 km south of Graaff-Reinet, in the Sundays River Valley. Named after the former owner of the farm, N J Adendorff, who sub-divided it into smallholdings in about 1858. Municipal status was attained in 1878. Adendorp is situated 7 km south of Ascon Site Office.
Ascon Site Office
- Type: Castle
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Camdeboo Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-32.23604° or 32° 14′ 10″ southLongitude
24.53793° or 24° 32′ 17″ eastOpen location code
4GV6QG7Q+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 5382440024OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
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