The indigenous inhabitants of the Knysna area are a southern Khoekhoe people called the Houtunqua or Outeniqua. The San were gradually displaced and absorbed by south migrating Khoekhoe peoples. The first of these were various San Hunter-gatherer peoples who inhabited most of Southern Africa in paleolithic. It is situated 60 kilometres east of the city of George on the N2 highway, and 33 kilometres west of the Plettenberg Bay on the same road.įorty fossilised hominid footprints, dating to about 90,000 years ago, along with various other archaeological discoveries suggest that humans have lived in Knysna for well over 300,000 years.
and is one of the destinations on the loosely defined Garden Route tourist route. Knysna ( / ˈ n aɪ z n ə/) is a town with 76,150 inhabitants (2019 mid-year estimates) in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
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