Redelinghuys

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}}

{{Use South African English|date = April 2024}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Redelinghuys

| image_skyline = Redelinghuys, South Africa.jpg

| image_caption = Redelinghuys

| pushpin_map = South Africa Western Cape#South Africa

| coordinates = {{coord|32|28|44|S|18|32|17|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 = West Coast

| subdivision_type3 = Municipality

| subdivision_name3 = Bergrivier

| subdivision_type4 = Main Place

| established_title = Established

| leader_title = Councillor

| area_footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/162001 |title = Main Place Redelinghuys |work=Census 2011}}

| area_total_km2 = 2.12

| elevation_m = 20

| population_footnotes =

| population_total = 574

| population_as_of = 2011

| population_density_km2 = auto

| demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011)

| demographics1_footnotes =

| demographics1_title1 = Black African

| demographics1_info1 = 23.2%

| demographics1_title2 = Coloured

| demographics1_info2 = 58.1%

| demographics1_title3 = Indian/Asian

| demographics1_info3 = 0.5%

| demographics1_title4 = White

| demographics1_info4 = 17.5%

| demographics1_title5 = Other

| demographics1_info5 = 0.7%

| demographics_type2 = First languages (2011)

| demographics2_footnotes =

| demographics2_title1 = Afrikaans

| demographics2_info1 = 95.8%

| demographics2_title2 = English

| demographics2_info2 = 1.8%

| demographics2_title3 = Xhosa

| demographics2_info3 = 1.3%

| demographics2_title4 =

| demographics2_info4 =

| demographics2_title5 = Other

| demographics2_info5 = 1.1%

| timezone1 = SAST

| utc_offset1 = +2

| postal_code_type = Postal code (street)

| postal_code = 8105

| postal2_code_type = PO box

| postal2_code = 8105

| area_code_type = Area code

| area_code = 022

}}

Redelinghuys is a village in the Bergrivier Local Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa, located about {{convert|160|km|-1}} north of Cape Town on the Verlorevlei River. The 2001 Census recorded the population as 581 people in 167 households.{{cite web |url=http://census.adrianfrith.com/place/10309 |title=Main Place Redelinghuys |work=Census 2001 |accessdate=30 November 2011}} The village is situated on the R366 regional route between Piketberg and Elands Bay. It is served by a police station, a public library, a satellite health clinic, and two primary schools.

The town has a predominantly Victorian architecture.

Verlorenvlei

{{Main|Verlorevlei River}}

On 23 September 2014 a part of the southern shore of the vlei was declared as a provincial heritage site for reasons associated with the vernacular fishing village located there. On the same date the Diepkloof Rock Shelter, an internationally important archaeological site associated with the emergence of modern humans and intrinsically connected to the ecology of the vlei, was also declared.Provincial Notices 253 & 256/2014, Province of the Western Cape Provincial Gazette Extraordinary, No. 7310, Cape Town: 23 September 2014

In 1991, the wetland was declared a Ramsar site.{{Cite web |title=Verlorenvlei {{!}} Ramsar Sites Information Service |url=https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/525 |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=rsis.ramsar.org}} The estuary is considered an Important Bird and Biodiversity Area by BirdLife South Africa.{{Cite web |title=Verlorenvlei |url=https://www.birdlife.org.za/iba-directory/verlorenvlei/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=BirdLife South Africa |language=en-US}}

The river is the only known habitat of the endangered Verlorenvlei redfin.{{Cite journal |last1=Chakona |first1=Albert |last2=Swartz |first2=Ernst R |last3=H. Skelton |first3=Paul |date=2014-11-11 |title=A new species of redfin (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Pseudobarbus) from the Verlorenvlei River system, South Africa |journal=ZooKeys |issue=453 |pages=121–137 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.453.8072 |doi-access=free |issn=1313-2970 |pmc=4258629 |pmid=25493062|bibcode=2014ZooK..453..121C }}

References

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{{West Coast District Municipality}}

Category:Populated places in the Bergrivier Local Municipality