Zoar is a settlement in
Garden Route District Municipality
The Garden Route District Municipality (; ), formerly known as the Eden District Municipality, is a district municipality located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC4.
Geography
The Garden Route District Muni ...
in the
Western Cape
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province of
South Africa
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.
The village and mission station is 21 km east of
Ladismith
Ladismith is a town and agricultural centre in the western Karoo, 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 l ...
. It was founded by a group of over 200 German Separatists seeking escape from religious persecution in their homeland, on the farm Elandsfontein in 1817 and named after
Zoar on the Red Sea, mentioned in the Bible (Gen. 14:2-8). The name at first meant ‘insignificance’, but when
Lot fled thither from
Sodom, it acquired the meaning of ‘haven’.
The
Seweweekspoort pass and
Seweweekspoort Peak are located to the north of the community.
References
{{Eden District Municipality
Populated places in the Kannaland Local Municipality