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Protected area · Western Cape
Hottentots-Holland
Hottentots-Holland is a protected area in Western Cape, about 16 km south-east of Stellenbosch. It covers 700 km² — number 6 by size of the 23 Western Cape areas with a recorded size.
700km² recorded size
—year established
1 590 melevation of the point
16 kmsouth-east of Stellenbosch
Facts
- Type
- Protected area (natural landscape)
- Province
- Western Cape
- District
- Cape Winelands
- Local municipality
- Stellenbosch
- Size
- 700 km² · 70 000 ha
- Rank by size
- 19 of 115 nationally · 6 in Western Cape
- Elevation
- 1 590 m
- Part of
- Boland Mountain Complex
- Coordinates
- -34.0349, 18.9851
- Nearest large town
- Stellenbosch, 16 km south-east
- Wikipedia articles
- 9 languages
Sources: Wikidata Q950463 · WDPA 351317 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Hottentots Holland Nature ReserveForest reserve5 km north-east
- Hottentotsholland Nature ReserveNature reserve8 km north-east
Jonkershoek Nature ReserveNature reserve9 km north-west
Assegaaibosch Nature ReserveProtected area9 km north-west
Helderberg Nature ReserveNature reserve10 km west- Jan Marias Nature ReserveNature reserve15 km north-west
GBIF records within 15 km
Wildlife recorded around Hottentots-Holland
1 503 mammal and 169 218 bird occurrence records within 15 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Chacma BaboonPapio ursinus206
- Cape PorcupineHystrix africaeaustralis194
- Bush DuikerSylvicapra grimmia114
- Eastern Gray SquirrelSciurus carolinensis99
- KlipspringerOreotragus oreotragus97
- Cape Gray MongooseGalerella pulverulenta96
- Cape GenetGenetta tigrina92
- Cape GrysbokRaphicerus melanotis75
- Honey BadgerMellivora capensis67
- Smith's Red Rock HarePronolagus rupestris58
- CaracalCaracal caracal52
- BontebokDamaliscus pygargus38
- Hewitt's Red Rock HarePronolagus saundersiae32
- Xeric Four-striped Grass RatRhabdomys pumilio28
Birds
- Cape SugarbirdPromerops cafer4 860
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola4 192
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis3 901
- Cape Robin-ChatCossypha caffra3 799
- Cape WeaverPloceus capensis3 583
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca3 408
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris3 074
- Orange-breasted SunbirdAnthobaphes violacea3 028
- Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata2 985
- Cape CanarySerinus canicollis2 946
- Southern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris chalybeus2 927
- Cape BulbulPycnonotus capensis2 885
- Malachite SunbirdNectarinia famosa2 877
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris2 806
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.