Steenbras Upper Dam, Gordon's Bay

Name: Steenbras Upper Dam
Address: Gordon's Bay, South Africa

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Steenbras Upper Dam is an earth-fill type dam located in the Hottentots Holland Mountains above Gordons Bay in the Western Cape, South Africa. It impounds the Steenbras River upstream of the older Steenbras Dam. The dam was constructed in 1977 for the City of Cape Town and serves mainly for municipal and industrial use. The hazard potential of the dam has been ranked high. ()

Opened: 1977 (47 years ago)Length: 3084 ftHeight: 112 ftReservoir area: 1.02 mi²Coordinates: 34°10'5"S, 18°54'7"E

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East Somerset West - Non UrbanGordon's Bay South Africa

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Steenbras Upper Dam – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, Monkey Town, Strand, Harmony Flats Nature Reserve.

4 miNW
Museum
Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, Somerset West
102 min walk • Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum - is 40 kilometres outside the city of Cape Town, just off the N2, in the region known as the Helderberg Basin. Lwandle was once inhabited by hunter-gatherer groups who secured their food from the nearby seashore.
3.5 miN
34°7'11"S • 18°52'58"E
Monkey Town, Somerset West
90 min walk • Aquarium, Zoo
5.7 miNW
Town, Area
Strand, Somerset West
146 min walk • Strand is a seaside resort town in the Western Cape, South Africa. It forms part of the Helderberg region of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, situated on the north-eastern edge of False Bay and near the foot of the Helderberg Mountains.
3.2 miNW
National park
Harmony Flats Nature Reserve
82 min walk • Harmony Flats Nature Reserve is a 9-hectare piece of protected land, located between Strand and Gordon's Bay, South Africa. It protects a surviving fragment of critically endangered Lourensford Alluvium Fynbos vegetation.
6.6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Protected area
Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary, Rietvlei Wetland Reserve
168 min walk • Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary is a 10 hectares reserve in Strand, South Africa. This isolated bird sanctuary is located near the estuary of the Lourens River.
2 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain pass
Sir Lowry's Pass
51 min walk • Sir Lowry's Pass is a mountain pass on the N2 national road in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It crosses the Hottentots-Holland mountain range between Somerset West and the Elgin valley, on the main national road between Cape Town and the Garden Route.
3.4 miSE
Dam
Rockview Dam, Cape Floristic Region
88 min walk • Rockview Dam is a zoned earth-fill/rock-fill type dam located on the Palmiet River near Grabouw, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1986 and serves mainly for pumping purposes. The hazard potential of the dam has been ranked high.
4.4 miSE
Dam
Kogelberg Dam
112 min walk • 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 and its primary purpose is to serve for irrigation and industrial use.