Mamre, Western Cape

Mamre is a town in the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is situated approximately 30km north of central Cape Town, close to the town of Atlantis.Mamre was established as a village and mission station in 1808 by Moravian missionaries. It was at first known as Groene Kloof after the Dutch East India Company post established there in 1701 and abandoned in 1791. It was subsequently renamed after the biblical Mamre (Gen. 13:18), a name said to mean "fattiness".