What is Porterville?
Porterville is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The town is located at the foot of the Olifants River Mountains, 27 km southeast of Piketberg and 155 km northeast of Cape Town. It is situated 140 km north of Cape Town on R44 road at the base of the Olifants River mountains.
Where Is Porterville In South Africa
Porterville is a quaint town nestled on the slopes of the Olifant’s River Mountains. Situated 140 kilometers from Cape Town, Porterville is a friendly, welcoming town that is well known amongst locals as the paragliding and hang-gliding capital of the Western Cape Province.
Porterville attracts paragliding and hanging gliding enthusiasts from all over the world when the active sky and powerful thermals provide ideal conditions for cross-country flying.
Porterville was first established in 1863 after Frederick John Owen, one of the original 1820 Settlers subdivided his farm into plots, naming the town after the then-popular Attorney General of the Cape – William Porter. However, centuries before the arrival of Dutch Settlers, the region was inhabited by San and the mountains in the region contain numerous relics of the past, the most outstanding of which is a rock art painting of a sailing ship east of Porterville. (located on private land).
The region is famous for the rare flower, the Disa Uniflora, and it is the only place in South Africa where one can see fields of these flowers in nature, the rarest being the sulfur-yellow Disa, which has only been found in one small colony in Porterville.
The Groot Winterhoek Wilderness area, with its extraordinary rock formations and popular hiking routes, is situated in the Groot Winterhoek mountain range just east of Porterville. Various examples of rock art, believed to be between 300 and 6 000 years old, can be found in the area. Rock paintings illustrate the religious and social life of the Bushman or San, whose ancestors have lived in southern Africa for more than 100 000 years.
Where is Porterville in the Cape?
The town is located at the foot of the Olifants River Mountains, 27 km southeast of Piketberg and 155 km northeast of Cape Town. It is situated 140 km north of Cape Town on R44 road at the base of the Olifants River mountains.
Which district is Porterville?
23rd District of California
The district includes the cities of Bakersfield, California City, Frazier Park, Kernville, Lake Isabella, Lancaster, Mojave, Porterville, Ridgecrest, Taft, and Tehachapi. The 23rd District also encompasses the Sequoia and Los Padres National Forests.