Piketberg
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Piketberg (also sometimes spelt Piquetberg in the past) is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa, located about 80 km east of Saldanha Bay. The original spelling of the name was "Piquetberg". The town is in the foothills of the Piketberg mountains, a range of low mountains formed from Table Mountain Sandstone.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Piketberg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa Western Cape#South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Western Cape
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- West Coast
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Bergrivier
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Main Place
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1840
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillors
- Settlement.leader_name
- Riaan de Vries (DA) Ray van Rooy (DA)
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 13.27
- Settlement.population_total
- 12075
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
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Piketberg (also sometimes spelt Piquetberg in the past) is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa, located about 80 km east of Saldanha Bay. The original spelling of the name was "Piquetberg". The town is in the foothills of the Piketberg mountains, a range of low mountains formed from Table Mountain Sandstone.
The area around the mountains is conducive to the farming of wheat, while the area on top of the Piketberg Mountains range (called Piket-Bo-Berg), being cooler and generally frost-free, is suited to the farming of fruit and Rooibos Tea. Piketberg has a large Dutch Reformed Church designed by the architect Carl Otto Hager in his trademark neo-Gothic style.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Piketberg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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