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Dordrecht, South Africa

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1673: 50: 444:. Its many historical buildings and museum display turn-of-the-century furniture and clothing. Dordrecht is a small town surrounded by a number of farms with a large number of merino sheep and cattle ranchers in the region. Farmers around Dordrecht also grow potatoes. Dordrecht has a number of historical sites including a unique 1873 colonial country bed-and-breakfast. There are farmstay holidays available in the region. They are well known in South Africa for trout fishing, pheasant hunting and game hunting. The town is also situated near the Western 80: 33: 414: 1554: 87: 57: 1899: 1420:, has the lowest recorded temperature in South Africa, of −20.1 °C (−4 °F), on 23 August 2013. The former national record, of −18.6 °C (−1 °F), was also registered in the same locality, on 28 June 1996. 1592: 1672: 471: 451:
It has two high schools, Masikhanyise High School and Dordrecht High School (which is 102 years old). Its oldest townships are Sinako township, Munikville and Marabastad.
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A Remembrance Garden is in the city centre in memory of Baron Smithdorff, and high in the kopje in the foothills is a plaque dedicated to the Smithdorff family.
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of South Africa. Dordrecht was founded in 1856 by Baron Smiddolff (later changed to Smithdorff), a minister of the
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Details of the temperature, rainfall and wind extremes recorded in SA
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where South Africa's only snow skiing resort is found.
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Map with information on Dordrecht and surrounding towns
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and had a population of about 8,741 people in 2001.
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View of the town of Dordrecht
Dordrecht is located in Eastern Cape
Dordrecht is located in South Africa
31°22′S 27°3′E / 31.367°S 27.050°E / -31.367; 27.050
South Africa
Eastern Cape
Chris Hani
Emalahleni
Black African
Coloured
Indian
Asian
White
First languages
Xhosa
Afrikaans
Time zone
UTC+2
SAST
Postal code
PO box
Area code
Eastern Cape Province
Dutch Reformed Church
the city of the same name
Netherlands

Grain mill
bevel gears
Stormberg Mountains

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