The Cape Winelands District Municipality, formerly the Boland District Municipality is a district municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC2.
The defined boundaries of this municipality coincide roughly with the boundaries of the geographical area that has been known since the early days of the Cape Colony as "The Boland". In Afrikaans Boland means "up land" or "the higher land" or "the land ab...
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The Cape Winelands District Municipality, formerly the Boland District Municipality is a district municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC2.
The defined boundaries of this municipality coincide roughly with the boundaries of the geographical area that has been known since the early days of the Cape Colony as "The Boland". In Afrikaans Boland means "up land" or "the higher land" or "the land above" (i.e. in contrast to the low coastal areas of the original Dutch settlement at the Cape). However, the term "Boland", as originally used, was a loose concept, with no defined borders (cf. the informal but not meaningless terms "The Sahara" or "The Rocky Mountains"). The Boland is generally mountainous, with range after range of beautiful and isolated sandstone peaks reaching towards 2000m but also has broad, fertile valleys that are home to some of the country's finest vineyards.
The region has a Mediterranean climate. Summers are hot and...
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