Calitzdorp
Sign in to saveCalitzdorp is a town on the Western side of the Little or Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and lies on South Africa's Route 62.
Key facts
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- Calitzdorp
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- Clockwise from Top: Calitzdorp Main Road, Calitzdorp sign, Dutch Reformed Church of Calitzdorp.
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- South Africa Western Cape#South Africa
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- Country
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- South Africa
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- Province
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- Western Cape
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- District
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- Garden Route
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- Municipality
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- Kannaland
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- Main Place
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- Established
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- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 26.33
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 240
- Settlement.population_total
- 4284
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
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Calitzdorp is a town on the Western side of the Little or Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and lies on South Africa's Route 62.
==History== The land on which Calitzdorp is located, known as Buffelsvallei, was originally granted to Jacobus Johannes and Matthys Christian Calitz in 1831. The Calitz brothers contributed a portion of their farmland for the construction of a church in 1853; by 1858, the church had initiated the sale of plots to its congregation. The town's development continued with the opening of a railway line in 1924, followed by the completion of electrification and a new cement road to Oudtshoorn in 1937.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calitzdorp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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