Coldstream, Eastern Cape
Coldstream | |
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Coldstream Coldstream shown within Eastern Cape | |
Coordinates: 33°57′47″S 23°42′54″E / 33.963°S 23.715°ECoordinates: 33°57′47″S 23°42′54″E / 33.963°S 23.715°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Eastern Cape |
District | Sarah Baartman |
Municipality | Kou-Kamma |
Area[1] | |
• Total | 2.53 km2 (0.98 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 1,657 |
• Density | 650/km2 (1,700/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011)[1] | |
• Black African | 33.0% |
• Coloured | 62.1% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.1% |
• White | 4.0% |
• Other | 0.7% |
First languages (2011)[1] | |
• Afrikaans | 72.4% |
• Xhosa | 22.7% |
• English | 2.9% |
• Other | 2.0% |
PO box | 6311 |
Coldstream is a town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Village east of Plettenberg Bay on the Tsitsikamma coast. Famous for a burial stone excavated nearby in 1910, depicting a prehistoric artist holding brush-feather and palette, indicating that rock paintings were being executed in South Africa some 2,000 years ago. Said to be named after a cold stream flowing past.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Main Place Coldstream". Census 2011.
- ↑ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 119.
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