Albertinia is a settlement in

Hessequa Municipality Hessequa Local Municipality ( af, Hessequa Munisipaliteit, before 24 June 2005 the Langeberg Local Municipality) is a municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is flanked by the lower Breede River to the west and the Gou ...

in the

Western Cape The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...

province of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. Village 50 km west of

Mossel Bay Mossel Bay ( af, Mosselbaai) is a harbour town of about 99,000 people on the Southern Cape (or Garden Route) of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province. Mossel Bay lies 400 kilometres east of the ...

, at the foot of the Langeberg Mountains, and is fondly referred to as the home of the Aloe. Albertinia has two Aloe factories, as

Aloe Ferox ''Aloe ferox'', commonly known as bitter aloe, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae. This woody aloe is indigenous to southern Africa. It is one of several ''Aloe'' species used to make bitter aloes, a purgative medicatio ...

, or Cape Aloe is indigenous to the area. Another indigenous plant to the Albertinia district is

Thamnochortus insignis ''Thamnochortus insignis'' is a species of grass-like restio of the family Restionaceae, endemic to Cape Province in South Africa. Appearance Plants are tall, grass- or reed-like tussocks with a diameter of 500 mm to 1 metre at the base ...

, commonly known as thatch, which is exported for commercial use. Due to the dry climate, Albertinia demarcates the end of th
Klein Karoo Wine Route
one will find various vineyards at the foot of the mountain slopes. Albertinia also boasts a 9 Hol
golf course
It was laid out in 1900 on the farm Grootfontein and became a municipality in 1920. The name is derived from the surname of Johannes Rudolph Albertyn (1847-1920), the first Dutch Reformed minister to serve the community.

References

{{Authority control Populated places in the Hessequa Local Municipality Populated places established in 1900