Loerie
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Coordinates: 33°52′23″S 25°01′48″E / 33.873°S 25.030°E / -33.873; 25.030
Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
District	Sarah Baartman
Municipality	Kouga
Area [1]
• Total	2.77 km2 (1.07 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	2,787
• Density	1,000/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	37.7%
• Coloured	59.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.8%
• White	1.7%
• Other	0.8%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Afrikaans	67.0%
• Xhosa	28.2%
• English	2.3%
• Other	2.4%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	6370
PO box	6370
Area code	042

Loerie (Loerieheuwel is a township situated in Loerie) is a town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Settlement some 25 km north-east of Jeffreys Bay and 11 km north-north-west of the mouth of the Gamtoos River. Said to take its name from the loeries or louries, a turaco species (Tauraco corythaix) occurring here.^[2]

Loerie had a railway station on the Avontuur Railway which closed in 2011.

In 1930, the Eastern Province Cement Company opened a limestone quarry and built a 14 km cableway to transport the stone to the Loerie railway station where it was transhipped to the Avontuur Railway to be processed in a cement factory near Port Elizabeth.^[3]

References

• Loerie Quo Vadis, 'n Kultuur Historiese Oorsig, deur Theo Vosloo. p. 5

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