Rietbron
Place in Eastern Cape, South Africa
32°53′56″S 23°08′56″E / 32.899°S 23.149°E / -32.899; 23.149[1]
(2011)[1]
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Rietbron is a town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is on the R306 road.
Village 85 km south-east of Beaufort West and 64 km north-west of Willowmore. The name is Afrikaans and means ‘reed source’, ‘reed fountain’.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d "Main Place Rietbron". Census 2011.
- ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 387.
External links
Media related to Rietbron at Wikimedia Commons
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Municipalities and communities of Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape
District seat: Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha)
- Cookhouse
- Kommadagga
- Middleton
- Pearston
- Petersburg
- Somerset East
![Sarah Baartman District within South Africa](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Map_of_South_Africa_with_Cacadu_highlighted_%282011%29.svg/150px-Map_of_South_Africa_with_Cacadu_highlighted_%282011%29.svg.png)
- Alicedale
- Grahamstown (Makhanda)
- Riebeek East
- Salem
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