Calitzdorp

Calitzdorp is a town on the Western side of the Little or Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and lies on South Africa's Route 62.

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Settlement.name: Calitzdorp
Settlement.image_caption: Clockwise from Top: Calitzdorp Main Road, Calitzdorp sign, Dutch Reformed Church of Calitzdorp.
Settlement.pushpin_map: South Africa Western Cape#South Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: South Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Western Cape
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Garden Route
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Kannaland
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Main Place
Settlement.established_title: Established
Settlement.leader_title: Councillor
Settlement.area_total_km2: 26.33
Settlement.elevation_m: 240
Settlement.population_total: 4284
Settlement.population_as_of: 2011

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Elevation: 260
Image: Calitzdorp main.jpg
Dialing code: 044

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postal code: 6660
inception: 1821-01-01
route number: 62
Commons category: Calitzdorp

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Calitzdorp is a town on the Western side of the Little or Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and lies on South Africa's Route 62.

==History== The land on which Calitzdorp is located, known as Buffelsvallei, was originally granted to Jacobus Johannes and Matthys Christian Calitz in 1831. The Calitz brothers contributed a portion of their farmland for the construction of a church in 1853; by 1858, the church had initiated the sale of plots to its congregation. The town's development continued with the opening of a railway line in 1924, followed by the completion of electrification and a new cement road to Oudtshoorn in 1937.