the Karoo, however, is its southwestern corner, between the Great Escarpment and the Cederberg-Skurweberg mountain ranges, called the Tankwa Karoo, which...
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Drakensberg (redirect from Drakensberg montane grassland, woodland, and forest)
South of the 26°S parallel the Drakensberg escarpment is composed of Ecca shales, which belong to the Karoo Supergroup, and they are 300 million years...
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Quartzite Sourveld (Gs 2) KaNgwane Montane Grassland (Gm 16) Karoo Escarpment Grassland (Gh 1) Klerksdorp Thornveld (Gh 13) KwaZulu-Natal Highland Thornveld...
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Geography of South Africa (section Karoo)
Great Karoo, a semi-desert region that is divided by the Great Escarpment into the Upper Karoo (at an elevation of 1,100–1,600 m) and the Lower Karoo (at...
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Highveld (redirect from Highveld grasslands)
continuation of the Great Escarpment to the south separates the Highveld from KwaZulu-Natal. The south-eastern portion of the Great Escarpment (that portion of...
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mountains and escarpments in high rainfall areas and gallery forests, and much of the plateau area is covered by grassland and savanna. The karoo occupies...
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Veld (category Karoo)
terrain, vast grasslands and a modified tropical or subtropical climate. To the east, the Highveld's border is marked by the Great Escarpment, or the Mpumalanga...
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Sneeuberge (category Karoo)
Africa's Great Escarpment in the Cradock, Murraysburg, Richmond, Graaff-Reinet, Nieu-Bethesda and Middelburg districts of the Great Karoo, most of which...
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Homopus femoralis (redirect from Karoo Cape Tortoise)
into the high escarpment on the edge of the Karoo, where the climate is relatively humid. Although it has also been known as the Karoo cape tortoise,...
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for the Amathole region. Geography of South Africa The Great Escarpment Geology of the Karoo Cape Fold Mountains List of mountain ranges of South Africa...
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