Devil's Peak Estate is a suburb of

Cape Town Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...

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in the area known as the

City Bowl The City Bowl is a part of Cape Town in South Africa. It is a natural amphitheatre-shaped area bordered by Table Bay and defined by the mountains of Signal Hill, Lion's Head, Table Mountain and Devil's Peak. The area includes the central bu ...

. It is sandwiched between

Vredehoek Vredehoek (Afrikaans: "corner of peace" or "peace corner") is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa located in the City Bowl, on the slopes of Table Mountain, between Devil's Peak Estate and Oranjezicht. The suburb was proclaimed after the first w ...

and

Zonnebloem Zonnebloem (Dutch for sunflower) is a suburb in City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa, previously part of District Six. It was a farming estate until the early 19th century, when it became a su ...

on the slopes of Devil's Peak. According to the 2011 census it has a population of 1,859 residents in an area of . Devil's Peak is situated adjacent to the M3 expressway (De Waal Drive changed to Philip Kgosana Drive). The name Devil's Peak is descriptive of its location as this is the closes suburb to the

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of the same name. It is derived from a folklore story about a pipe smoking competition between a pirate named Van Hunks and the Devil. To this day when a cloud forms around the mountain people will say that "the Devil and van Hunks are at it again". Devil's Peak is knows as one of the windiest places in the city bowl. It is served by route 101 of the

MyCiTi MyCiti is a bus rapid transit service with feeders, which forms part of a greater Integrated Public Transport driven economic development strategy of the City of Cape Town Municipality (CoCT) in South Africa. The service is being rolled out a ...

bus service. Devil's Peak is a quiet neighbourhood often considered a sub-suburb of

. It also falls under the

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community called DPV which stands for Devil's Peak & Vredehoek. The area has access to the Table Mountain Reserve where the public has access to mountain trails. These are frequented by hikers and Mountain bikers. Every few years the area comes under threat of wildfires in which properties have been damaged. However a strong community program ensures that evacuation processes and destructive fires are kept under control.

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