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Table Mountain. List of Mountains in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini is a general list of mountains in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini with elevation. This list includes mountains in two other sovereign states, in the Stormberg-Drakensberg range, where the highest elevations are to be found in Lesotho, as well as Emlembe, the highest mountain in Eswatini, located at the border with South ...
The list includes chains of mountains bordered by highlands or separated from other mountains by passes or valleys. Some ranges in South Africa are relatively isolated, while others are physiographically part of larger geographical ranges such as the Drakensberg .
The Great Escarpment reaches its greatest elevation – 2,000 to 3,482 metres (6,562 to 11,424 feet) within the border region of South Africa and Lesotho. A map of South Africa shows the central plateau edged by the Great Escarpment and its relationship to the Cape Fold Mountains to the south.
The remaining named mountain ranges, to the south and southwest of the Escarpment, are all part of the Cape Fold Belt, which extends to the east as far as Port Elizabeth, about 150 km beyond the right-hand edge of the map. A map of South Africa showing the central plateau edged by the Great Escarpment and its relationship to the Cape Fold ...
See Mountain Passes of South Africa. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates)
In the south and south-west the coastal plain contains a series of mountain ranges that run parallel to the coastline. These are the Cape Fold Mountains , whose rocks were laid down 510 – 350 million years ago, and were then crumpled into a series of parallel folds by the collision of the Falkland Plateau into the south of what was to become ...
The Piketberg Mountain Range is a mountain range located in the Swartland (Black land) region of the Western Cape in South Africa. [1] Image of the Piketberg mountains from a south-easterly perspective. The mountain range is made up of low mountains primarily composed of Table Mountain Sandstone.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Mountain ranges of South Africa by province (4 C) D. Drakensberg (20 P)