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Protected area · Western Cape
Macassar Dunes Conservation Area
Macassar Dunes Conservation Area is a protected area in Western Cape, about 18 km south-west of Stellenbosch. It covers 11,2 km² — number 15 by size of the 23 Western Cape areas with a recorded size.
11,2km² recorded size
—year established
—elevation of the point
18 kmsouth-west of Stellenbosch
Facts
- Type
- Protected area
- Province
- Western Cape
- Local municipality
- City of Cape Town
- Size
- 11,2 km² · 1 116 ha
- Rank by size
- 76 of 115 nationally · 15 in Western Cape
- Coordinates
- -34.0708, 18.7542
- Nearest large town
- Stellenbosch, 18 km south-west
- Wikipedia articles
- 1 language
Sources: Wikidata Q6722680 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Helderberg Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area3 km south-east
Dick Dent Bird SanctuaryGame reserve7 km south-east
Helderberg Nature ReserveNature reserve12 km east
Harmony Flats Nature ReserveNature reserve · 0 km²12 km south-east- Vredenheim Big Cats ParkWildlife sanctuary13 km north
- Haasendal Nature ReserveNature reserve17 km north
GBIF records within 2 km
Wildlife recorded around Macassar Dunes Conservation Area
7 mammal and 18 712 bird occurrence records within 2 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Birds
- Hartlaub's GullChroicocephalus hartlaubii517
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca489
- Kelp GullLarus dominicanus478
- Yellow-billed DuckAnas undulata461
- Cape TealAnas capensis453
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus452
- Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus450
- Greater Crested TernThalasseus bergii448
- Red-knobbed CootFulica cristata428
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo402
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis392
- Pied AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta379
- Common TernSterna hirundo354
- Cape ShovelerSpatula smithii349
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.