Coldstream | |
Pushpin Map: | South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa |
Coordinates: | -33.963°N 23.715°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Eastern Cape |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Sarah Baartman |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Kou-Kamma |
Subdivision Type4: | Main Place |
Established Title: | Established |
Leader Title: | Councillor |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 2.53 |
Population Total: | 1657 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Racial makeup (2011) |
Demographics1 Title1: | Black African |
Demographics1 Info1: | 33.0% |
Demographics1 Title2: | Coloured |
Demographics1 Info2: | 62.1% |
Demographics1 Title3: | Indian/Asian |
Demographics1 Info3: | 0.1% |
Demographics1 Title4: | White |
Demographics1 Info4: | 4.0% |
Demographics1 Title5: | Other |
Demographics1 Info5: | 0.7% |
Demographics Type2: | First languages (2011) |
Demographics2 Title1: | Afrikaans |
Demographics2 Info1: | 72.4% |
Demographics2 Title2: | Xhosa |
Demographics2 Info2: | 22.7% |
Demographics2 Title3: | English |
Demographics2 Info3: | 2.9% |
Demographics2 Title5: | Other |
Demographics2 Info5: | 2.0% |
Timezone1: | SAST |
Utc Offset1: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code (street) |
Postal2 Code Type: | PO box |
Postal2 Code: | 6311 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Coldstream is a village in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
The village lies east of Plettenberg Bay on the Tsitsikamma coast. The area is famous for a burial stone excavated here in 1910, depicting a prehistoric artist holding brush-feather and palette, indicating that rock paintings were being executed in South Africa some 2,000 years ago. Said to be named after a cold stream flowing past.[2]