P468 - South Africa - The Pinnacle rock, Mpumalanga

The Pinnacle rock, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Mpumalanga, is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area. In the north it borders on Limpopo, to the west Gauteng, to the southwest the Free State and to the south KwaZulu-Natal. The capital is Nelspruit. Prior to 1994, Mpumalanga was part of Transvaal Province.

The Pinnacle Rock, a tower-like freestanding quartzite buttress which rises 30 m above the dense indigenous forest, is 6 km north of Graskop on the R534 road (a scenic loop off the R532 road). To the right of the Pinnacle Rock is the first of eight small waterfalls in the Ngwaritsane stream.

普马兰加省（Mpumalanga）是南非九省之一，前身是德蘭士瓦東部，東界莫三鼻給和史瓦濟蘭。面積74,490 平方公里，2001年人口3,122,994 人。首府拿勒斯佩（Nelspruit）。

References sources : wikipedia