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The Kloof Gorge is part of the 4.47-square-kilometre (1.73 sq mi) Krantzkloof Nature Reserve. It is a predominantly English-speaking area. Kloof features several upmarket shopping centres and the Kloof Country Club, founded in 1927. It is known as a mist-belt with winding roads and tree-surrounded mansions and has become an attractive ...
Silwerboomkloof Natural Heritage Site is a small, protected valley (“kloof”), near the Helderberg Nature Reserve, in Somerset West, South Africa. [1]The name Silwerboomkloof means “Valley of the Silvertrees”.
Nuwekloof Pass, also known as Roodezand Pass or Tulbagh Kloof, is a mountain pass in the Western Cape, South Africa, which crosses the Obiqua Mountains in a kloof created by the Klein Berg River. It allows eastward access from Cape Town and the Swartland into the Tulbagh basin and onwards to the Breede River Valley .
The Kloof frog is an endangered amphibian, confined to clear streams in scarp forests. [5]Some 25 amphibian, 255 bird, 50 mammal, 36 reptile, 150 butterfly and 274 tree species [12] have been recorded in the Gorge or its vicinity.
Schoemans Kloof Pass, or simply Schoemanskloof, / ˈ s k uː m ə n z ˈ k l uː f / is situated in Mpumalanga province, on the R539 road between the junction with the R36 at Bambi (23 kilometres north of Machadodorp) and the junction with the N4 about 16 kilometres north of Ngodwana (South Africa). This scenic region is the access route that ...
The kloof was given its name by Isaq Schrijver in 1689, and more thoroughly explored by a later expedition under ensign August Frederik Beutler in 1752. [ 1 ] The valley has been farmed since 1760 and developed into an important fruit-growing region during the 1900s, [ 2 ] specifically prized for its apples and pears.
The area borders on the Kloof Gorge which forms part of the Krantzkloof Nature Reserve, and is situated in between Kloof and Waterfall which is also about 7 km from Hillcrest. Forest Hills is referred to as being part of the Kloof area as they are both situated on opposite sides of the Kloof Gorge, as a result the areas are joined by one road ...
The name Tamboerskloof is derived from the Dutch and Afrikaans words tamboer (drum) and kloof (valley). When Dutch settlers arrived and set up farms in the 1650s, they established the first of a series of lookout points at the site where Tamboerskloof lies today. From these lookout points, watchmen would beat drums to alert farmers in the area ...