Kasterlee

Kasterlee is an area and municipality inside the Belgian province of Antwerp . The municipality has extra than 18,000 inhabitants. It is positioned in the Kempen at an altitude of 18 meters. Kasterlee belongs to the judicial canton of Geel and electoral canton of Herentals . Kasterlee is split into 3 special natural systems. In the north the valleys of the Aa , the Rode Loop and the Kaliebeek form a natural border with the encircling municipalities, in the acute south the Valley of the Little Nete dominates the panorama. Exactly in between is the Kempen Heuvelrug , an elongated dune ridge that traverses nearly the entire Antwerp Noorderkempen. This is where the Kempen Heuvelrug is created, with peaks as much as forty m excessive.

With the later withdrawal of the ice sheets and the sinking of the water surface, dune vegetation overgrow the dune landscape. After the primary dune increase, very welland birch forests form round and at the dune ridges. The railway connection runs alongside Tielen through the Turnhout-Herentals line; development turned into executed from May 'ninety eight to Brussels with direct connections. At the cease of 2007 there was also an instantaneous reference to Antwerp.