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A Província Norte do Cabo lies to the south of its most important asset, the mighty Rio Orange, which provides the basis for a healthy agriculture industry.
The landscape is characterised by vast arid plains with outcroppings of haphazard rock piles. The cold Oceâno Atlântico forms the western boundary. This region covers the largest area of all the provinces and has the smallest population.
The largest part of the province falls within the Nama-Karoo biome with a vegetation of low shrubland and grass, and trees limited to water courses.
Maior província da África do Sul, está situada acima de Oeste do Cabo, fazendo fronteira com a Namíbia e Botsuana ao norte. Norte do Cabo reserva algo especial para todos os gostos: a beleza e tranqüilidade das inúmeras reservas ecológicas, a aventura e a adrenalina das rotas em veículos 4x4, as trilhas para caminhadas, as expedições de rafting nos rios, as cachoeiras, as famosas flores de Namaqualand e a riqueza de uma herança cultural diversa.
Em Kimberley, lugar das minas de diamantes, situa-se a maior mina de diamante do mundo chamada De Beers, fundada por Cecil John Rhodes. O maior aeroporto também está situado na capital da província. Abaixo, cartão-postal sobre o “pulsator” no interior da fábrica De Beers Co., em Kimberley.
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O Norte do Cabo é rico em minerais e fósseis. The country's chief diamond pipes are found no distrito de Kimberley. Em 1888, the diamond industry was formally established with the creation of De Beers Consolidated Mines. Alluvial diamonds are also extracted from the beaches and sea between Alexander Bay and Port Nolloth.
The Sishen Mine near Kathu is the biggest source of iron ore na África do Sul e the copper mine at Okiep é uma das mais antigas minas no país. Copper is also mined at Springbok e Aggenys. A província é rica também em asbestos, manganese, fluorspar, predas semi-preciosas e mármore.
A estação ferroviária da cidade capital está na Florence Street, close to the city centre. O luxuoso Blue Train travels de Pretoria para Cape Town, via Johannesburg e Kimberley, where passengers can board ou desembarcar. The Kimberley Tram Service - a vintage tram dating to the turn of the century, carries passengers from the City Hall to the Mine Museum from 09h00-16h00 daily.
O povo da Província Norte do Cabo is sparsely populated and houses some 873.000 people on 361.830 quilômetros quadrados de terras. Cerca de 69% da população fala “Afrikaans”. Outras línguas também são faladas, como Setswana, isiXhosa e inglês.
The last remaining true San (Bushman) pessoas vivem na área de Kalahari, no Norte do Cabo. The whole area, especialmente ao longo dos rios Orange e Vaal, is rich in San rock engravings. Uma boa coleção pode ser vista no Museu McGregor, em Kimberley.
Natural wonders sa richtersveld txt – Richtersveld: Rugged kloofs, high mountains and dramatic landscapes that sweep inland from the Orange River are distinct features of the vast mountain desert known as the Richtersveld Desert. The desert forms part of the Richtersveld National Park and is jointly managed by the Nama people and the South African National Parks Board. O selo postal ao lado foi emitido em 05/09/2001, com carimbo de Johannesburg ele mostra Richtersveld Desert. NT |
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Agriculture and industry
The province shares the rich Benguela Current with
the Western Cape, but in the past did not derive great benefit from this marine
resource. In 1998, however, the provincial government started encouraging the
development of and investment in the marine industry. The province has fertile
agricultural land. In the Orange River Valley, especially at
Upington, Kakamas and Keimoes, grapes and fruit are intensively cultivated.
Namaqualand Flowers Namaqualand is well known for its annual mass display of wild flowers in spring and its variety of succulent plants. Though we live in a semi-desert, don't let it fool you into thinking we have no plantlife. The western areas of the Northern Cape, including Namaqualand, a small section of the Green Kalahari and Calvinia, Niewoudtville and Loeriesfontein in the Hantam Karoo fall into the rainfall area, ie April-Sept. O selo postal ao lado foi emitido em 05/09/2001, com carimbo de Johannesburg. NT |
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Sharing the same climate as Namaqualand, it's not surprising these two subregions will give you breathtakingly beautiful and flamboyantly explosive displays of wild flowers during spring (July-November). Not to be outshone by floral splendour, the eastern summer rainfall areas unleash majestic, rolling thunderstorms. Booming across the wide plains, they threaten to shred the sky's dark curtain, their mighty bolts of lightning mercilessly stabbing the innocent earth. Fading swiftly, they melt back into a quiet, cobalt sky.
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O Parque Nacional Kalahari Gemsbok abriga uma das maiores áreas selvagens protegidas na África, vai da ponta da província de Norte do Cabo até o país vizinho, Botsuana.
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Acima, FDC do Parque Bontebok... Abaixo, FDC sobre os 50 anos do Parque Nacional Gemsbok (1931-1981), obliterado em Upington, 03/07/1981...
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Parque Nacional Cataratas Augrabies
Augrabies Waterfall: The Khoi people called it “Aukoerebis”, the Place of the Great Noise. O Rio Orange plunges downward for 60 metros in a spectacular waterfall. Unique names were given to this area – Moon Rock, Ararat and Echo Corner are descriptive of this rocky region. It is also characterised by the 18 kilometres long abyss of the Orange River Gorge and the craggy outcrops dominating the plains.
Existem girafas em Augrabies Falls National Park, Northern Cape – África do Sul... Nowhere is the Orange River more impressive than at the Augrabies Falls, which ranks among the world's greatest cataracts on a major river. The Augrabies Falls National Park was established to preserve this natural wonder. O selo emitido em 05/09/2001, mostra as Cataratas Augrabies.
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Parque Nacional Karoo
Beaufort West, Northern Cape
The Karoo National Park is situated close to the highway between Cape Town and the hinterland, approximately 1000km south of Johannesburg and 500 km north of Cape Town. The Great Karoo is a vast and unforgiving landscape in which the Karoo National Park is dominated by the lofty Nuweveld mountains and rolling plains.
Towards late afternoon the great unyielding canopy slowly softens its fierceness and from pastel shades of pink and blue the colors deepen, setting the endless Karoo canvas ablaze with glorious hues of orange and red.
Other attractions in the Park are a swimming pool, 2 information centres, game viewing, bird hide at the dam and 2 nature trails. The Springbok hiking trail which is a 3 day/2 night trail for a max of 12 persons and the Karoo Fossil Braille Trail and Karoo 4x4 trail for max of 8 persons are located in the Park.
Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, together with the Gemsbok National Park in Botswana, is Africa's first transfrontier game park, known as the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. It is one of the largest nature conservation areas in southern Africa, and one of the largest remaining protected natural ecosystems in the world. The Park provides unfenced access to a variety of game between South Africa, and Botswana and has a surface area of more than two million hectare.
Deserto de Kalahari (África do Sul, Botsuana e Namíbia)
Parque Nacional Vaalbos
Kimberley, Northern Cape
The Vaalbos National Park is an extraordinary 23,000 ha area along the Vaal River in the former heart of the alluvial diamond diggings near Kimberley. A tourist route, built with material from the diamond diggings using local labor, winds through the park, exposing visitors to all facets of it's three different ecosystems as they merge together as one.
The name Vaalbos originates from the vaalbos (camphor bush) a prominent plant species in the park. Rainfall during summer could vary between 300m and 700mm per annum, winters are cold with temperatures as high as 44c. A vida selvagem inclui os rinocerontes negro e branco, búfalo, girafa, elande, red hartebeest e tsessebe.
Birdwatchers come to see the large raptors and the rare yellow-breasted form of the crimson-breasted shrike among others. The park gets its rainfall mainly during summer, could vary between 300 mm and 700 mm per annum. Winters are cold with temperatures as low as 4 degrees C.
Summer temperatures may be as high as 44 degrees C. The park is a transitional vegetation zone where typical Karoo, Kalahari thornveld and grassveld meet. At Block Dam picnic sites 17 km from the gate 10 barbecue complete with ablution facilities and hide created at a waterhole. River picnic sites are situated on the banks of the Vaal River some 2km from the gate with 20 barbecues.
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Última atualização: 17/06/2008. |
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