Eldorado Park | |
Pushpin Map: | South Africa Gauteng#South Africa |
Coordinates: | -26.289°N 27.896°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Gauteng |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | City of Johannesburg |
Subdivision Type4: | Main Place |
Subdivision Name4: | Soweto |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Date: | 1965 |
Leader Title: | Councillor |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 9.12 |
Population Total: | 65698 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Racial makeup (2011) |
Demographics1 Title1: | Black African |
Demographics1 Info1: | 12.37% |
Demographics1 Title2: | Coloured |
Demographics1 Info2: | 85.06% |
Demographics1 Title3: | Indian/Asian |
Demographics1 Info3: | 1.13% |
Demographics1 Title4: | White |
Demographics1 Info4: | 0.18% |
Demographics1 Title5: | Other |
Demographics1 Info5: | 1.26% |
Demographics Type2: | First languages (2011) |
Demographics2 Title1: | Afrikaans |
Demographics2 Info1: | 56.9% |
Demographics2 Title2: | English |
Demographics2 Info2: | 35.7% |
Demographics2 Title3: | Zulu |
Demographics2 Info3: | 1.6% |
Demographics2 Title4: | Northern Sotho |
Demographics2 Info4: | 1.6% |
Demographics2 Title5: | Setswana |
Demographics2 Info5: | 1.3% |
Timezone1: | SAST |
Utc Offset1: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code (street) |
Postal Code: | 1811 |
Postal2 Code Type: | PO box |
Postal2 Code: | 1813 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Eldorado Park is a suburb of Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region G of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It lies on the southern boundary of Soweto and prior to 1994, was a Coloured township during Apartheid.
In 1965, the land was declared an area for the exclusive settlement of the Coloured South Africans under the Group Areas Act.[2] It became part of Johannesburg in 1970.[2] On 26 August 2020, local resident Nathaniel Julies was fatally shot by members of the South African Police Service.