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Kogelberg
Indigenous Fynbos in the Kogelberg Nature Reserve
Highest point
PeakKoeëlberg
Elevation1,289 m (4,229 ft)
Coordinates34°15′S 18°55′E / 34.250°S 18.917°E / -34.250; 18.917
Geography
Kogelberg is located in South Africa
Kogelberg
Kogelberg
CountrySouth Africa
Geology
Type of rockTable Mountain Sandstone
An aerial photograph of the Koegel Bay coastline and the R44 that runs along it.

The Kogelberg is a range of mountains along the False Bay coast in the Western Cape of South Africa. They form part of the Cape Fold Belt, starting south of the Elgin valley and forming a steep coastal range as far as Kleinmond.

The Kogelberg area has the steepest and highest drop directly into the ocean of any southern African coastal stretch.

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Kogelberg

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The Kogelberg is a range of mountains along the False Bay coast in the Western Cape of South Africa. They form part of the Cape Fold Belt, starting south...

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Kogelberg Nature Reserve

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Kogelberg Nature Reserve is a nature reserve of 3,000 ha (7,400 acres) comprising the Kogelberg Mountain Range, to the east of Cape Town, South Africa...

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Kogelberg Sandstone Fynbos

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Kogelberg Sandstone Fynbos is a critically endangered vegetation type occurring in the far south of the Western Cape, South Africa. This type of mountain...

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Paranomus spicatus

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Paranomus spicatus, the Kogelberg sceptre, is a flower-bearing shrub that belongs to the genus Paranomus and forms part of the fynbos . The plant is native...

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Kaindorf an der Sulm

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Kaindorf an der Sulm is a former municipality in the district of Leibnitz in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform...

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Kogelberg Dam

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Kogelberg Dam is a combined gravity & arch type dam located on the Palmiet River, near Grabouw, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1986...

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Mimetes arboreus

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Mimetes arboreus, or Kogelberg pagoda, is an evergreen, upright large shrub or small tree of 2–6 m (6½–20 ft) high in the family Proteaceae. It grows...

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Sorocephalus palustris

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fynbos. The plant is endemic to the Western Cape where it occurs on the Kogelberg. The plant was considered extinct and was last seen in 1984. Very little...

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Cape Floristic Region

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endemic to the southern coastal portion of the Western Cape, South Africa Kogelberg Sandstone Fynbos – Vegetation type endemic to the far south of the Western...

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Steenbras River

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Western Cape province of South Africa between the Hottentots Holland and Kogelberg mountins, draining into False Bay south of Gordon's Bay. It has been dammed...

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Serruria flagellifolia

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the fynbos. The plant is endemic to the Western Cape and occurs in the Kogelberg, Greenlandberg and Babilonstoringberge. The shrub grows up to 1.0 m tall...

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Fynbos

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(FFg 1) Kango Conglomerate Fynbos (FFt 1) Knysna Sand Fynbos (FFd 10) Kogelberg Sandstone Fynbos (FFs 11) Kouebokkeveld Alluvium Fynbos (FFa 1) Kouebokkeveld...

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Pringle Bay

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of False Bay from Cape Point. The town and surrounds are part of the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Heritage Site. The bay is named after Rear-Admiral...

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Sorocephalus clavigerus

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fynbos. The plant is endemic to the Western Cape where it occurs on the Kogelberg and Kleinrivierberge. The shrub grows only 100 cm high and flowers from...

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Agapanthus africanus

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settlement expansion. A proportion of the population is protected within the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve and is not threatened. List of plants known as lily...

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Helderberg Nature Reserve

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southern slopes of the Helderberg mountains. Its 398 ha consist mostly of “Kogelberg Sandstone Fynbos” (a highly species-rich vegetation type) with smaller...

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Austrophasma caledonense

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western South Africa, where it is known only from near Caledon and from the Kogelberg in Western Cape Province. Klass, Klaus-Dieter; Picker, Mike; Damgaard...

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Erica cabernetea

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kilometres (37 miles) southeast of Cape Town. This site lies within the Kogelberg Nature Reserve. Oliver, Edward George Hudson. 1998. Three new species...

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Aloe succotrina

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name Aloe succotrina Lam. Aloe succotrina is restricted to the mountains of the Cape Peninsula, and the mountainous coast between Kogelberg and Hermanus...

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Nature park

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Berge Raab-Örseg-Goricko Weinidylle Neusiedler See-Leithagebirge Rosalia-Kogelberg Carinthia Dobratsch Weißensee Lower Austria: Blockheide-Eibenstein-Gmünd...

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Molteno Brothers

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of land and funding for the establishment of the Kogelberg Nature Reserve with its 100,000 ha Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve. Continued support for the Cape...

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Overberg

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819 000 tonnes (2012 data). Nestled in the Overberg, one can find the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve (recognised and registered with UNESCO) populated with...

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Sorocephalus teretifolius

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to the Western Cape where it occurs in the Palmiet River valley in the Kogelberg. The shrub grows only 1 m high and flowers from November to December....

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Sorocephalus tenuifolius

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to the Western Cape where it occurs in the Palmiet River valley in the Kogelberg. The plant was considered extinct in 1987 but a new population was discovered...

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Palmiet River

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of the Keurbooms River. Applethwaite Lake Arieskraal Dam Eikenhof Dam Kogelberg Dam Nuweberg Dam Transpalmiet Dam Elgin, Western Cape Breede Water Management...

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