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 reservoir Nqweba Dam, as well as near the suburb Kroonvale.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, officially Robert Sobukwe Town after a name change in February 2026, is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is the oldest town in the province and the sixth 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
Village
Adendorp, officially KwaMseki Bishop Limba after a name change in February 2026, is a village 8 km south of Graaff-Reinet, on the Sundays River. It was named after the former owner of the farm, N J Adendorff, who sub-divided it into smallholdings in about 1858. 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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