Protected heritage site · Gauteng
Minnaar's Caves
Minnaar's Caves is a protected heritage site in Gauteng, about 36 km north-west of Johannesburg. It covers 0,01 km² — number 15 by size of the 15 Gauteng areas with a recorded size.
0,0km² recorded size
—year established
—elevation of the point
36 kmnorth-west of Johannesburg
Facts
- Type
- Protected heritage site (paleontological site, archaeological site)
- Province
- Gauteng
- Local municipality
- Mogale City
- Size
- 0,01 km² · 1 ha
- Rank by size
- 115 of 115 nationally · 15 in Gauteng
- Designations
- national heritage site of South Africa
- Part of
- Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs
- Coordinates
- -25.9900, 27.7731
- Nearest large town
- Johannesburg, 36 km north-west
Sources: Wikidata Q98004986 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
Plovers LakeProtected heritage site · 0 km²1 km north- Bothongo Rhino & Lion Nature ReserveNature reserve3 km north-east
DrimolenProtected heritage site · 0 km²3 km north-west
Coopers CaveProtected heritage site · 0 km²4 km south-west
SterkfonteinProtected heritage site5 km south-west- SwartkransProtected heritage site7 km north
GBIF records within 2 km
Wildlife recorded around Minnaar's Caves
72 mammal and 157 bird occurrence records within 2 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Birds
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca8
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus8
- Yellow-billed DuckAnas undulata7
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash7
- Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus6
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis5
- African Wattled LapwingVanellus senegallus5
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea4
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo4
- Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava4
- African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus3
- African DarterAnhinga rufa3
- Southern Masked WeaverPloceus velatus3
- Common OstrichStruthio camelus3
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.