Rockview Dam, Cape Floristic Region

#18 among attractions in Cape Floristic Region

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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. ()

Local name: RockviewdamOpened: 1986 (38 years ago)Length: 4265 ftHeight: 157 ftReservoir area: 180.39 acres (0.2819 mi²)Coordinates: 34°11'52"S, 18°57'1"E

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Rockview Dam – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

7.3 miNW
Museum
Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, Somerset West
187 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.
6.6 miNW
34°7'11"S • 18°52'58"E
Monkey Town, Somerset West
169 min walk • Aquarium, Zoo
6.6 miNW
National park
Harmony Flats Nature Reserve
169 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.
6.8 miNE
Dam
Eikenhof Dam
174 min walk • Eikenhof Dam is an earth-fill type dam on the Palmiet River, near Grabouw, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1977. The primary purpose of the dam is for irrigation use and its hazard potential has been ranked high.
3.6 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain pass
Sir Lowry's Pass
91 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 miNW
Dam
Steenbras Upper Dam, Gordon's Bay
88 min walk • 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.
4.1 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Kogelberg, Cape Floristic Region
105 min walk • 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.
5.2 miNE
Town
Grabouw
134 min walk • Grabouw is a town located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Grabouw is located some 65 km south-east of Cape Town, over Sir Lowry's Pass from Somerset West, along the N2 highway.
1 miE
Dam
Kogelberg Dam
26 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.