Roggeveld Mountains
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The Roggeveld Mountains (Roggeveldberge), are a mountain range in South Africa. The range does not even appear on many maps of the region, and is in a remote part of the Northern Cape that is seldom visited by tourists. The range lies between the towns of Calvinia and Sutherland, east and northeast of Tankwa Karoo National Park.
The mountains receive about 200mm of rainfall in a normal year. The name "Roggeveld" came from the wild Rye which once was plentiful in the area. The Ouberg Pass crosses the range at an altitude of 1,404 meters. Sutherland, in the western part of the range, is the coldest place in the nation.
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