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The Tsitsikamma National Park is a protected area on the Garden Route, Western Cape and Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is a coastal reserve well known for its indigenous forests, dramatic coastline, and the Otter Trail .
12.2 Private and Other Parks. 12.3 ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Special nature reserves are highly protected areas from which all ...
Keurbos Hut is situated in the indigenous forest on middle left side of image View east along the Tsitsikamma Mountains from Formosa Peak. The peak was first mapped in 1576 during a voyage by the Portuguese navigator and cartographer, Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo , when his ship put in at Plettenberg Bay , which he named Bahia Formosa or ...
The Tsitsikamma mountains form an east-west mountain range located in the Garden Route region of the southern South African coast in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces. Tsitsikamma means 'place of much water' in the Khoekhoe language .
Kou-Kamma Municipality (Afrikaans: Kou-Kamma Munisipaliteit; Xhosa: uMasipala wase Kou-Kamma) is a local municipality in South Africa.It is situated in the southwest corner of the Sarah Baartman District Municipality along the Indian Ocean coastline, in the southwestern sector of South Africa's Eastern Cape province.
The Otter Trail is a hiking trail along the Garden Route coast of South Africa and is named for the Cape clawless otter [1] which occurs in this region. This trail is widely regarded as one of the finest in the world and stretches from Storms River Mouth in the east to Nature's Valley in the west, is 26 km long as the crow flies and 44 km as the hiker walks.
The western boundary is a line from the high-water mark at Die Punt, Natures Valley, at S33°59.0' E023°34.561' due south to a point about 0.5 nautical miles offshore at S33°59.5', E023°34.561' The northern boundary of the MPA is the southern boundary of the Tsitsikamma National Park [2]
Nature's Valley lies between the Salt River, the foothills of the Tsitsikamma Mountains, the Indian Ocean and the Groot River lagoon. Nature's Valley has a balmy climate and is surrounded by the de Vasselot Nature Reserve which is part of the Tsitsikamma Park, and in turn part of the Garden Route National Park.