Zeekoevlei
Sign in to saveZeekoevlei is a freshwater lake in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. The lake is in area. Its name means hippopotamus pond or lake, from the Afrikaans words seekoei (literally "sea cow") and vlei.
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Vinony's link graph records 606 inbound references to Zeekoevlei, and connects out to Woodhead Dam, Cape Town and Cape Point.
The entry is geolocated on the map in waterbody, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Lakes of South Africa, Landforms of the Western Cape and Protected areas of the Western Cape.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- lagoon
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Western Cape
- Elevation
- 5
- Image
- Zeekoevlei Nature Reserve - Cape Town.jpg
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- residence time of water
- 0.24
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Zeekoevlei is a freshwater lake in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. The lake is in area. Its name means hippopotamus pond or lake, from the Afrikaans words seekoei (literally "sea cow") and vlei.
Zeekoevlei Nature Reserve (established in June 2000) is based on the lake. The total area of the reserve is . It is separated by a peninsula from the Rondevlei Nature Reserve and preserves endangered Cape Lowland Freshwater Wetland ecosystems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zeekoevlei” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations