Upington Real Estate- Northern Cape Province
Upington is situated in the north-central part of the Northern
Cape province.
Upington offers property and real estate investors a large selection
of properties ranging from large houses to smaller homes, apartments,
security villages, retirement complexes and guest houses.
Upington is a substantial, most pleasant town and a major road,
rail and air centre that serves the farms and ranches of the vast
Northern Cape interior. Upington, named after a Cape colonial prime
minister, lies on the banks of the Orange River, whose reaches and
midstream islands are lush with irrigated vineyards and plantations
of date-palms, cotton, lucerne and various fruits. These fruits
include saltanas and raisins and the area draws much of its prosperity
from the dried-fruit industry.
The flattish, sandy Kalahari plains to either side of the river
also sustain cattle and karakul sheep, whose wool is known as Persian
lamb, and yield a large number and variety of semi-precious stones.
Some of these are amethyst and beryl, agate, jasper, rose quartz,
tourmaline and tiger's eye as well as rubies and the occasional
gem-quality diamond.
The town is noted for, among other things, its unusually long (1,067-metre)
railway bridge and 5.5-kilometre airport runway, said to be the
southern hemisphere's longest, and is a convenient stopover for
travelers on their way to either the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
or the splendid Augrabies falls.
Upington was founded in 1871 as a mission station. The first cleric,
Christian Schroder, launched the region's first irrigation scheme.
Cultivated lands now stretch beyond the town of Kakamas some 80
kilometres to the west.
Kanon Eiland, 25 or so kilometres downstream is one of the bigger
and more developed of the densely wooded islands which, together,
once served as a refuge for sections of the warlike Korana folk,
river-pirates and rustlers whose raiding forays in the 1860s provoked
three punitive military expeditions from distant Cape Town.
Seeff Upington can assist you with all types of residential property
for sale or rental including houses, apartments, cluster developments,
security villages, land and guesthouses.
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