Vanwyksdorp is a town in

Kannaland Local Municipality Kannaland Municipality ( af, Kannaland Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality located within the Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The municipal area is situated in the western part of the Little ...

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 count ...

. Village on the

Groot River Groot River or Grootrivier, meaning "large river", may refer to: * Groot River (Eastern Cape), a tributary of the Gamtoos River (South Africa) * Groot River (Southern Cape), a tributary of the Gourits River (South Africa) * Groot River (Western C ...

, some 55 km south-east of

Ladismith Ladismith is a town and agricultural centre in the western Little Karoo region of South Africa's Western Cape province. Geography It is situated adjacent to a series of fertile, irrigated valleys, at an elevation of 550 m above sea level, at ...

and 66 km north-east of Riversdale.

History

It was founded as a parish of the Dutch Reformed Church on the farm Buffelsfontein in 1904 and named after the Van Wyk family.

References

{{Eden District Municipality Populated places in the Kannaland Local Municipality