Hessequa Municipality is about 320km’s from Cape Town on the N2 and is situated in the Garden Route District Municipality. At present, the Municipal area of Hessequa includes the surrounding towns of Riversdale, Heidelberg, Slangrivier, Albertinia, Gouritsmond, Vermaaklikheid, Stilbaai, Jongensfontein and Witsand.
The name Hessequa, meaning “people of the trees”, refers to the tribe of Khoikhoi people that used to live in the region. Hessequa is gently curving the edge of the continent just east of the southern-most tip of Africa. Hessequa is the entrance to the world famous Garden Route and is nestled in the shadow of the Langeberg Mountain, and in the embrace of the warm Indian Ocean, stretching from the magnificent Breede River in the west, and the majestic Gourits River in the east.
A region rich in natural beauty with rolling hills of pristine limestone and mountain fynbos, dune thicket and Renosterveld and to the north surrounded with rugged mountains and indigenous forests. Pristine beaches stretch the entire length of her coastline. Ecological assets include four estuaries, a word heritage forest site, several nature reserves which guard a number of rare and endangered floral species.
