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Information on Swartkops, Eastern Cape, South Africa
About Swartkops, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Swartkops is located in the Western region of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Swartkops Estuary an Important Bird Area, with over 10 000 waterbirds in summer and is one of the “must see” birding venues.
The river is approximately 134 km long with a catchment area of 1 303 sq. km. Agriculture accounted for approximately 14% of the land-cover in the Swartkops catchment. This consisted mainly of temporary commercial dryland agriculture, temporary commercial irrigated agriculture, commercial forestry, and improved grasslands.
Less than 1% of the catchment was degraded bushland while approximately 77% was natural, mostly shrubland and bushland with some wetlands and waterbodies also present. Urban development accounted for approximately 9% of the catchment land-cover.
This was mostly residential, commercial and industrial development associated with the coastal city of Port Elizabeth and the towns of Despatch and Uitenage further inland.
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Towns and Suburbs of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa
Addo , Aliwal North , Bathurst , Cape St Francis , Cintsa , Coffee Bay , Cradock , East London , Gonubie , Graaff Reinet , Grahamstown , Haga Haga , Hogsback , Jeffreys Bay , Kei
Mouth , King Williams Town , Kirkwood , Mthatha , Paterson , Port
Elizabeth , Port Alfred , Port
St Johns , Qolora Mouth , Rhodes , St
Francis Bay , Storms River , Stutterheim , Summerstrand , Sunland , Swartkops , Tsitsikamma , Uitenhage
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