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Western Cape

The province is topographically exceptionally diverse. Most of the province falls within the Cape Fold Belt, a set of nearly parallel ranges of sandstone folded mountains of Cambrian-Ordovician age (the age of the rocks is from 510 to about 330 million years ago; their folding into mountains occurred about 350 to about 270 million years ago). The height of the mountain peaks in the different ranges varies from 1000 m to 2300 m. The valleys between ranges are generally very fertile, as they contain the weathered loamy soils of the Bokkeveld mudstones (see the diagrams below).

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Name: Western Cape topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Western Cape, South Africa (-35.03376 17.56879 -30.43026 24.22241)

Average elevation: 581 m

Minimum elevation: 0 m

Maximum elevation: 2,197 m

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