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HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis are also ongoing issues in the region. In 2017, the Eastern Cape had a TB incidence of 839/100,000 people, which was higher than South Africa's estimated prevalence of 737/100,000. [28] Additionally, the Eastern Cape has a high overall HIV prevalence rate (25.2%) as of 2017. [29]
Eastern Cape: Part of the Drakensberg system Koranna Mountains: named after a tribe: Northwest: Kouebokkeveld Mountains: Cold Bucks Field Mountains: Western Cape: Kouga Mountains: named after the Kouga River (‘hippos’) Eastern Cape: Part of the Cape Fold Belt system Langeberg: Long Mountains: Western Cape: 2,075 m (6,808 ft) Part of the ...
Eastern Cape geography stubs (283 P) Pages in category "Geography of the Eastern Cape" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
The Cape Peninsula has a reputation for its wind: the dry "South-Easter" which blows almost incessantly in summer (December–February), and the "North-Wester" which accompanies the cold fronts that roll in from the Atlantic during winter (June–August). The vegetation of the Cape area consists of fynbos, some grassland and Albany thickets.
The Drakensberg that form the northeastern and eastern borders of Lesotho, as well as the Eastern Cape Drakensberg, are composed of a thick layer of basalt (lava) that erupted 180 million years ago. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] That layer rests on the youngest of the Karoo Supergroup sediments, the Clarens sandstone , which was laid down under desert conditions ...
About 180 million years ago, a mantle plume under southern Gondwana caused bulging of the continental crust in the area that would later become southern Africa. [2] Within 10–20 million years, rift valleys formed on either side of the central bulge and flooded to become the proto-Atlantic Ocean and proto-Indian Ocean more or less along the present southern African coastline and separating ...
Cape of Good Hope (left) and Cape Hangklip (right) in South Africa, from space Cape Tisan in Mersin Province, Turkey Cape Tindari and Marinello lagoons, Sicily. In geography, a cape is a headland, peninsula or promontory extending into a body of water, usually a sea. [1]
The Wild Coast is a section of the coast of the Eastern Cape, a province of South Africa. The region stretches from East London in the south to the border of KwaZulu-Natal in the north. It is the traditional home of the Xhosa , Thembu people , and the Mpondo people, and the birthplace of many prominent South Africans, including Nelson Mandela ...