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Riversdale, South Africa

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The Riversdal Landbouskou (agricultural show) is a popular agricultural festival, taking place annually in February. Riversdale as a popular tourist town, has many coffee shops, restaurants, accommodation facilities and traveller experiences like wineries, horse riding and fishing at the Korentepoort
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Mountains to the north, with Sleeping Beauty Mountain Peak overlooking the town. The town is home to the second largest collection of Thomas Bowler paintings within South Africa and is also the only town in the country, in which you would find a Ukrainian Museum of Culture. Riversdale links with the
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The Old Jail dates back to the 1800s, and is one of the most visited tourist facilities in town. The Bali Trading Complex is arguably one of the most visited facilities along all of the N2.
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Klein Karoo, via the tarred Garcia's Mountain Pass, which offers traditional Karoo landscapes and wide open spaces for motorcyclists.
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The Royal Engineers and settlement planning in the Cape Colony 1806–1872: Approach, methodology and impact
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Vera Volschenk (1899-1987), painter born in 1899; eldest of nine daughters of Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk
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The town was founded as a church on the farm, Doornkraal, and was subsequently named after
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Populated places in the Hessequa Local Municipality
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Riversdale, Western Cape
Town





N2
Garcia Pass
Riversdale is located in Western Cape
Riversdale is located in South Africa
Riversdale is located in Africa
34°05′49″S 21°15′44″E / 34.09694°S 21.26222°E / -34.09694; 21.26222
Country
South Africa
Province
Western Cape
District
Garden Route
Municipality
Hessequa
DA
Black African
Coloured
Indian
Asian
White
First languages
Afrikaans
Xhosa

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