Coldstream, South Africa
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Coldstream | |
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| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Eastern Cape |
| District | Sarah Baartman |
| Municipality | Kou-Kamma |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.53 km2 (0.98 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 1,657 |
| • Density | 655/km2 (1,700/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 33.0% |
| • Coloured | 62.1% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.1% |
| • White | 4.0% |
| • Other | 0.7% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Afrikaans | 72.4% |
| • Xhosa | 22.7% |
| • English | 2.9% |
| • Other | 2.0% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| PO box | 6311 |
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]