cape fold mountain range is the folded mountains of the western cape that enclose the little karoo.
cape fold mountain range is the folded mountains of the western cape that enclose the little karoo.
name the folded mountains of the western cape that enclose the little karoo?
cape fold mountain range
the coastal belt below the south and south-western stretches of the great escarpment contains several ranges of cape fold mountains which run parallel to the coast, separating the great escarpment from the ocean. (these parallel ranges of fold mountains are shown on the map, above left. note the course of the great escarpment to the north of these mountain ranges.) the land (at approximately 400500m above sea level) between two of these ranges of fold mountains in the south (i.e. between the outeniqua and langeberg ranges to the south and the swartberg range to the north) is known as the little karoo, which consists of semi-desert scrubland similar to that of the great karoo, except that its northern strip along the foothills of the swartberg mountains, has a somewhat higher rainfall and is, therefore, more cultivated than the great karoo. the little karoo is historically, and still, famous for its ostrich farming around the town of oudtshoorn. the lowland area (700800m above sea level) to the north of the swartberg mountain range up to the great escarpment is the lowland part of the great karoo (see map at top right), which is climatically and botanically almost indistinguishable from the karoo above the great escarpment. the narrow coastal strip between the most seaward cape fold mountain range (i.e., the langebergouteniqua mountains) and the ocean has a moderately high year-round rainfall, especially in the george-knysna-plettenberg bay region, which is known as the garden route. it is famous for the most extensive areas of indigenous forests in south africa (a generally forest-poor country).
south africa
bullet::::- "gasteria obliqua" – south-east cape province; naturalized in mexico









































bullet::::- ="g. bicolor"









































bullet::::- ="g. bicolor" var. "fallax"









































bullet::::- ="g. bicolor" var. "liliputana"









































bullet::::- "gasteria disticha" – robertson karoo and surrounds, western cape









































bullet::::- "g. disticha" var. "disticha" – south-west and south-central cape province









































bullet::::- "g. disticha" var. "langebergensis" – western cape province









































bullet::::- "g. disticha" var. "robusta – western cape province









































bullet::::- "gasteria brachyphylla" – little karoo in cape province









































bullet::::- "g. brachyphylla" var. "bayeri" – little karoo in cape province









































bullet::::- "g. brachyphylla" var. "brachyphylla"









































bullet::::- "gasteria rawlinsonii" – baviaanskloof in cape province
gasteria