Caledon, Western Cape

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Caledon is a town in the Western Province in South Africa. It is primarily an agricultural region. Most agricultural activities involve grain production with a certain amount of stock farming. It is located in the Overberg geographical region of the province and lies on the main south coast highway, the N2, 120km east of Cape Town. The town is locally well known for the Caledon Spa and Casino and for its rolling hills and yellow canola fields in spring. The town has a Mediterranean Climate of warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters. temperatures are modified by its close proximity to the South Atlantic Ocean, just over the Kleinriviers Mountains to the south. Caledon is also famous as the place where P.K. van der Byl retired to and subsequently died. He was an outlandish Rhodesian government minister.

Coordinates: 34°13′53″S, 19°25′27″E