Witwatersrand

Cresta di roccia resistente all'erosione in Sud Africa

Key facts

Mountain.photo_caption: Witpoortjie Falls in the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, formerly the Witwatersrand National Botanical Gardens. Waterfalls like this, cascading over a quartzite ridge in Gauteng gave rise to the name "Witwatersrand", which means "white water ridge" in Afrikaans.
Mountain.elevation_m: 1913
Mountain.country: South Africa
Mountain.subdivision1_type: Provinces
Mountain.map: South Africa
Mountain.map_relief: 1
Mountain.age: Archean
Mountain.orogeny: Vredefort impact structure
Mountain.length_km: 56
Mountain.length_orientation: ESE/WNW
Mountain.width_km: 10
Mountain.width_orientation: NNE/SSW
Mountain.easiest_route: From Gauteng or Pretoria
Mountain.name: Witwatersrand
Mountain.photo: Waterfall, Witwatersrand National Botanical Gardens.jpg

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: mountain range
Country: South Africa
Located in: Gauteng
Elevation: 1408
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Material used: shale
Image: Waterfall, Witwatersrand National Botanical Gardens.jpg
Width: 10
Length: 56

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different from: Witwatersrand Basin
Commons category: Witwatersrand
time period: Archean

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Il Witwatersrand (in afrikaans: "scarpata delle acque bianche"), talvolta detto semplicemente Rand, è un sistema di colline sedimentarie che attraversa da est a ovest la provincia del Gauteng, in Sudafrica. Si trova nella zona dell'altopiano centrale del paese, ad altitudini comprese fra 1700 e 1800 m s.l.m.

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