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National park · Free State
Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Golden Gate Highlands National Park is a national park in Free State, about 20 km east of Clarens. It covers 116 km² — number 2 by size of the 4 Free State areas with a recorded size. Proclaimed or established in 1963.
116km² recorded size
1963year established
2 107 melevation of the point
20 kmeast of Clarens
Facts
- Type
- National park (national park of South Africa)
- Province
- Free State
- District
- Thabo Mofutsanyane
- Local municipality
- Dihlabeng
- Size
- 116 km² · 11 630 ha
- Rank by size
- 46 of 115 nationally · 2 in Free State
- Established
- 1963
- Elevation
- 2 107 m
- Coordinates
- -28.5244, 28.6208
- Nearest large town
- Clarens, 20 km east
- Wikipedia articles
- 18 languages
Nearby
- QwaQwa National ParkNational park13 km east
Clarens Village Nature ReserveNature reserve22 km west- Witzieshoek NaturellereserweNature reserve25 km east
Royal Natal National ParkNature reserve · 61 km²37 km south-east- Rugged Glen Nature ReserveNature reserve40 km south-east
Sterkfontein Dam Nature ReserveProtected area43 km east
GBIF records within 7 km
Wildlife recorded around Golden Gate Highlands National Park
589 mammal and 23 851 bird occurrence records within 7 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Black WildebeestConnochaetes gnou142
- Plains ZebraEquus quagga70
- Chacma BaboonPapio ursinus62
- BontebokDamaliscus pygargus48
- Vaal RhebokPelea capreolus45
- Common ElandTaurotragus oryx35
- Red HartebeestAlcelaphus caama35
- Rock HyraxProcavia capensis14
- SpringbokAntidorcas marsupialis5
- Cape PorcupineHystrix africaeaustralis5
- ServalLeptailurus serval4
- HartebeestAlcelaphus buselaphus4
- African Clawless OtterAonyx capensis2
- South African Ground SquirrelXerus inauris2
Birds
- Red-winged StarlingOnychognathus morio718
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis674
- Cape WeaverPloceus capensis664
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus605
- Pied StarlingLamprotornis bicolor599
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris442
- Red-knobbed CootFulica cristata438
- Cape Robin-ChatCossypha caffra432
- Cape Rock ThrushMonticola rupestris428
- Jackal BuzzardButeo rufofuscus427
- Levaillant's CisticolaCisticola tinniens414
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea411
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola398
- White-necked RavenCorvus albicollis385
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.