Hartbeespoort
Sign in to saveHartbeespoort, informally known as "Harties", is a small resort town in the North West Province of South Africa, situated on slopes of the Magaliesberg mountain and the banks of the Hartbeespoort Dam. The name of the town means "gateway of the hartbees" (a species of antelope) in Afrikaans. Schoemansville, named after General Hendrik Schoeman, a Boer General in the Anglo-Boer War, who owned the farm that the Hartbeespoort Dam was built on, is the oldest neighbourhood of Hartbeespoort.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Hartbeespoort
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa North West#South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North West
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bojanala
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Madibeng
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Main Place
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Maritza du Plessis (Ward 33) Erna Rossouw (Ward 30)
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 125.89
- Settlement.population_total
- 22374
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_density_km2
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- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Local Municipality of Madibeng
- Area
- 125.89
- Image
- Hartbeespoort Dam00.jpg
- Dialing code
- 012
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- postal code
- 0216
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Hartbeespoort, informally known as "Harties", is a small resort town in the North West Province of South Africa, situated on slopes of the Magaliesberg mountain and the banks of the Hartbeespoort Dam. The name of the town means "gateway of the hartbees" (a species of antelope) in Afrikaans. Schoemansville, named after General Hendrik Schoeman, a Boer General in the Anglo-Boer War, who owned the farm that the Hartbeespoort Dam was built on, is the oldest neighbourhood of Hartbeespoort.
Hartbeespoort is the collective name of a few smaller towns situated around the Hartbeespoort Dam, including the towns of Meerhof, Ifafi, Melodie, Schoemansville and Kosmos.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hartbeespoort” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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