Avontuur
Sign in to saveAvontuur is a town situated in the Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The town is located 13km south-east of Uniondale on an intersection of the R339 and R62 regional routes.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- George Local Municipality
- Elevation
- 876
- Image
- Station Avontuur 1.JPG
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Avontuur, Western Cape
- inception
- 1765-01-01
- postal code
- 6490
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- History
- See also
- References
Avontuur is a town situated in the Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The town is located 13km south-east of Uniondale on an intersection of the R339 and R62 regional routes.
==History== The name is Afrikaans for adventure; its origin, however, remains uncertain. The river from which the town takes its name was known in 1778.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Avontuur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations
Available in 8 languages
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0