Attequa

The Attequa, also recorded as Attaqua, were Khoekhoe people of the southern Cape, living inland of the Gouriqua and towards the country around George. Their neighbours included other herding communities along the coastal plain and beyond the mountains. In the late seventeenth century, expeditions from the Dutch settlement at the Cape reached these peoples as they travelled east. Isaac Schrijver recorded a visit to the Attaqua on his journey in 1689, alongside encounters with the Hessequa, Gouriqua and Outeniqua.