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The Klein Swartberg Mountain is an inselberg of approximately 8 000 hectares situated about 120 km east of the city of Cape Town on the N2 Garden Route highway. With its highest elevation of 1 088 meters above sea level it is a natural landmark between the towns of Caledon and Greyton in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

This inselberg is situated within the Cape Floral Region, one of the epicentres of plant diversity in the world. As a micro cosmos of the Cape Floral Region, the mountain and its ecosystem are of international significance.

The mountain is surrounded by commercial grain and livestock farmland and is the catchment of three rivers. Along the routes of these three rivers a diverse collection of fruit-, wine-, dairy- and vegetable commercial farming enterprises are producing some of the finest export quality products in the province.

The Map below shows the regional locality of the Klein Swartberg Conservancy situated about halfway between the city of Cape Town and Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of the African Continent.