Klaarstroom is a village in
Prince Albert Local Municipality
Prince Albert Municipality is a municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
History
At the end of the apartheid era, the area that is today the Prince Albert Local Municipality formed part of the Central Karoo Regional Servi ...
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 Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
.
It is situated at the northern end of
Meiringspoort
Meiringspoort (Afrikaans for "Meiring's pass") is a South African mountain pass on the N12 national road, where it crosses the Swartberg mountain range.
Geography
The pass is a gateway that connects the Little Karoo and the Great Karoo, throug ...
, about 60 km east of
Prince Albert and 95 km north-west of
Uniondale. Originally named Pietersburg, its present name, Afrikaans for 'clear stream', probably refers to waters flowing from the
Swartberg
The Swartberg mountains (''black mountain'' in Afrikaans) are a mountain range in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is composed of two main mountain chains running roughly east–west along the northern edge of the semi-arid Little ...
into the lowlands.
[G. Ross: ''Romance of Cape Mountain Passes''. New Africa Books. 2004. , 9780864866639. p.89.]
References
{{Central Karoo District Municipality
Populated places in the Prince Albert Local Municipality