{{More citations needed|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Keurboomstrand | image_skyline = Keurbooms.jpg | image_caption = The Keurbooms rivermouth | pushpin_map = South Africa Western Cape#South Africa | coordinates = {{coord|34|00|S|23|27|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[South Africa]] | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = [[Western Cape]] | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = [[Garden Route District Municipality|Garden Route]] | subdivision_type3 = Municipality | subdivision_name3 = [[Bitou Local Municipality|Bitou]] | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | leader_title = Councillor | area_footnotes = <ref name="census2011">{{cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/179004 |title = Main Place Keurboomstrand |work=Census 2011}}</ref> | area_total_km2 = 9.75 | population_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | population_total = 475 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto <!-- demographics (section 1) --> | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | demographics1_title1 = [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Black African]] | demographics1_info1 = 2.3% | demographics1_title2 = [[Coloureds|Coloured]] | demographics1_info2 = 13.5% | demographics1_title3 = [[Indian South African|Indian]]/[[Asian South African|Asian]] | demographics1_info3 = | demographics1_title4 = [[White South African|White]] | demographics1_info4 = 82.9% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 1.3% <!-- demographics (section 2) --> | demographics_type2 = [[First language]]s (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | demographics2_title1 = [[Afrikaans]] | demographics2_info1 = 49.9% | demographics2_title2 = [[South African English|English]] | demographics2_info2 = 48.6% | demographics2_title3 = | demographics2_info3 = | demographics2_title4 = | demographics2_info4 = | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 1.5% <!-- blank fields (section 2) --> <!-- Other information --> | timezone1 = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]] | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = [[List of postal codes in South Africa|Postal code]] (street) | postal_code = | postal2_code_type = [[Post-office box|PO box]] | postal2_code = | area_code_type = [[Telephone numbers in South Africa|Area code]] }} '''Keurboomstrand''' is a [[resort town]] near [[Plettenberg Bay]] on the [[Western Cape]] of [[South Africa]]. It takes its name from the [[Indigenous (ecology)|indigenous]] [[Virgilia (plant)|keurboom tree]] which grows in the region. The [[Keurbooms River]] runs nearby.
==History== The Matjes River Rock Shelter nearby contains artefacts from the [[San people|San]] dating back to the [[Neolithic]] period 11,000 years ago and is a National Monument.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sahra.org.za/sites/920520021 |title=9/2/052/0021 {{!}} SAHRA |website=www.sahra.org.za |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214095034/http://www.sahra.org.za/sites/920520021 |archive-date=2014-12-14}} </ref> The shell [[middens]] at the site is one of the largest in the world being 10 metres high, 15 metres wide and 30 metres long, but have been degraded.
Portuguese explorers from the ''Sao Gonçalo'' were ship-wrecked nearby in 1630 for eight months which was the first European settlement in South Africa.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/travel/2011-11-06-girls-gone-wild-a-stroll-on-seal-mountain/ |title=Girls gone wild: A stroll on seal mountain |last=Keeton |first=Claire |date=6 November 2011 |website=TimesLIVE |language=en-ZA |access-date=2020-01-18}}</ref>
==See also== * [[Plettenberg Bay]] * [[Klasies River Caves]]
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