Kareedouw is a town in the Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 province of South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. It is the administrative centre for the Kou-Kamma Municipality

Kou-Kamma Local Municipality

The Kou-Kamma Municipality is a local municipality in South Africa. It is situated in the southwest corner of the Cacadu District Municipality along the Indian Ocean coastline, in the southwestern sector of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province. To the west lies the Western Cape Province...

 in the Cacadu District

Cacadu District Municipality

Cacadu District Municipality is situated in the Western Portion of the Eastern Cape province, covering an area of 58 242 square kilometres. The area of the district municipality includes nine local municipalities and other portions collectively known as the District Management Areas . The seat of...

 of the Eastern Cape.

The town's name derives from the Khoe

KHOE

KHOE is the college radio station of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa.-Description:The station is described as a "a nonprofit, noncommercial, educational radio station". The station broadcasts a variety, "world radio" format...

 phrase meaning "path by the karee trees". The town was established by white settlers around the year 1750.

Tourism

Kareedouw is the gateway to the Langkloof Mountains

Langkloof Mountains

The Langkloof Mountains are a short mountain range within the Cape Fold Belt in the Western Cape of South Africa. They form a link between the Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma Mountains to the north of Plettenberg Bay in the Garden Route region. They stretch from Prince Alfred's Pass in the west to just...

; 120 km from Port Elizabeth. It nestles between the Tsitsikamma and Suuranys Mountains. A popular activity is 4x4 trips through the Suurveld, Kouga and Baviaanskloof Wilderness areas, canoe trips on the Kouga River

Kouga River

Kouga River originates near Haarlem, Western Cape, South Africa, and flows eastward, where it joins the Gamtoos River just past the Kouga Dam. Tributaries include the Baviaanskloof River and the Nabooms River.- Also see :* List of rivers of South Africa...

, and camping and hiking trails.

Notable residents

One important person connected to the town is John Vorster, prime minister from 1966 to 1978, who had a house on the coast and is buried in the cemetery next to the Dutch Reformed Church

Dutch Reformed Church

The Dutch Reformed Church was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the...

.

• Balthazar Johannes Vorster lies buried under a large black marble slab in "heroes' acre" in the remote Eastern Cape town of Kareedouw, at the foot of the Langkloof. ... As late as 2002, the Kareedouw hospital still treated black and white patients at separate entrances...

Locations

There is a Kareedouw Peak and a Kareedouw Pass.

The Tsitsikamma mountains are a mountain range located in the Garden Route region of the southern South African coast in the Western Cape

Western Cape

The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 and Eastern Cape provinces. They stretch just over 80 km from the Keurbooms River in the west just north of Plettenberg Bay, to Kareedouw Pass in the east. The Formosa Conservation Area is adjacent to the Jagersbos farm, about 15 km west of Kareedouw.

There are medical and pharmaceutical facilities, a public library, and a Lutheran Missionary Monument at or near Kareedouw.