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Transfrontier area · Northern Cape
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is a transfrontier area in Northern Cape, about 310 km north of Upington. It covers 38 000 km² — number 1 by size of the 9 Northern Cape areas with a recorded size. Proclaimed or established in 1931.
38 000km² recorded size
1931year established
—elevation of the point
310 kmnorth of Upington
Facts
- Type
- Transfrontier area (transboundary protected area)
- Province
- Northern Cape
- Local municipality
- Dawid Kruiper
- Size
- 38 000 km² · 3 800 000 ha
- Rank by size
- 1 of 115 nationally · 1 in Northern Cape
- Established
- 1931
- Coordinates
- -25.7667, 20.3833
- Nearest large town
- Upington, 310 km north
- Wikipedia articles
- 25 languages
Nearby
Kalahari Gemsbok National ParkNature reserve10 km north-west
Tswalu Kalahari ReserveGame reserve · 1 110 km²260 km south-east- !Khamab Kalahari ReserveGame reserve · 971 km²286 km east
- Spitskop NatuurtuinNature reserve302 km south
Augrabies Falls National ParkNational park · 820 km²314 km south- Billy Duvenhage Nature ReserveNature reserve353 km south-east
GBIF records within 30 km
Wildlife recorded around Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
1 075 mammal and 33 626 bird occurrence records within 30 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- GemsbokOryx gazella109
- LionPanthera leo98
- SpringbokAntidorcas marsupialis97
- Blue WildebeestConnochaetes taurinus75
- Southern GiraffeGiraffa giraffa73
- SteenbokRaphicerus campestris70
- CheetahAcinonyx jubatus41
- Red HartebeestAlcelaphus caama36
- South African Ground SquirrelXerus inauris34
- MeerkatSuricata suricatta32
- Bat-eared FoxOtocyon megalotis26
- Greater KuduTragelaphus strepsiceros21
- WildcatFelis silvestris21
- Xeric Four-striped Grass RatRhabdomys pumilio20
Birds
- Pale Chanting GoshawkMelierax canorus1 117
- Scaly-feathered WeaverSporopipes squamifrons955
- Common OstrichStruthio camelus928
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola903
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis827
- Sociable WeaverPhiletairus socius821
- Kori BustardArdeotis kori807
- Yellow CanaryCrithagra flaviventris790
- Marico FlycatcherBradornis mariquensis789
- Namaqua DoveOena capensis787
- Cape CrowCorvus capensis781
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eaterMerops hirundineus736
- Cape StarlingLamprotornis nitens724
- White-browed Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser mahali715
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.