Coldstream is a village in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Coldstream
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Coordinates: 33.963°S 23.715°E / -33.963; 23.715
Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
District	Sarah Baartman
Municipality	Kou-Kamma
Area [1]
• Total	2.53 km2 (0.98 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	1,657
• Density	650/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	33.0%
• Coloured	62.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.1%
• White	4.0%
• Other	0.7%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Afrikaans	72.4%
• Xhosa	22.7%
• English	2.9%
• Other	2.0%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	6311

The village lies east of Plettenberg Bay on the Tsitsikamma coast. The area is famous for a burial stone excavated here in 1910, depicting a prehistoric artist holding brush-feather and palette, indicating that rock paintings were being executed in South Africa some 2,000 years ago. Said to be named after a cold stream flowing past.[2]

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