Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, South Africa
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Located in the heart of the famous Garden Route, Plettenberg Bay, was originally called Bahía Formosa by the Portuguese navigators, due to its extreme beauty.
Long before Jan van Riebeeck landed on the Cape, Portuguese explorers mapped the bay in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, being the first Bartolomeu Dias in 1487. Ninety years later, Manuel de Perestrelo aptly called it Bahia Formosa or the beautiful bay. The first European inhabitants were 100 Portuguese sailors abandoned here for 9 months, when the São Gonçalo sank in the bay in 1630. The survivors built two small boats that they used to connect to a passing ship. A stone they left behind on the island of Beacon, known as the Stone Van Plettenberg, is now in the museum in Cape Town.
Plettenberg Bay is characterized by an extremely mild maritime climate with very few rains or extreme temperatures. It is located within the forest biome of Knysna Afromontane, containing temperate gallery forest, sustained by mild temperatures and high rains, evenly distributed.
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