Lekkersing is a town in

Namakwa District Municipality The Namakwa District Municipality () is one of the 5 districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Namakwa is Springbok and the region is also known as Little Namaqualand. As of 2011, a majority of its 108,118 residents s ...

in the

Northern Cape The Northern Cape ( ; ; ) is the largest and most sparsely populated Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley, South Africa, Kimberley. It includes ...

province of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. Lekkersing, located about 50 km from Eksteenfontein and 70 km from

Kuboes Kuboes is a town in Richtersveld Local Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Kuboes was one of the first permanent settlements on the Richtersveld. The town grew around a Rhenish Missionary Society, Rhenish mission set up by ...

, lies nestled in the hills of the

Richtersveld The Richtersveld is a desert landscape characterised by rugged kloofs and high mountains, situated in the north-western corner of South Africa’s Northern Cape province. It is full of changing scenery from flat, sandy, coastal plains, to cragg ...

. Temperatures as high as 53 °C have been recorded in this area.

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Populated places in the Richtersveld Local Municipality {{NorthernCape-geo-stub