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National park · Eastern Cape
Mountain Zebra National Park
Mountain Zebra National Park is a national park in Eastern Cape, about 87 km east of Graaff-Reinet. It covers 284 km² — number 3 by size of the 9 Eastern Cape areas with a recorded size. Proclaimed or established in 1937.
284km² recorded size
1937year established
1 276 melevation of the point
87 kmeast of Graaff-Reinet
Facts
- Type
- National park (national park of South Africa)
- Province
- Eastern Cape
- Local municipality
- Inxuba Yethemba
- Size
- 284 km² · 28 400 ha
- Rank by size
- 31 of 115 nationally · 3 in Eastern Cape
- Established
- 1937
- Elevation
- 1 276 m
- Coordinates
- -32.2532, 25.4530
- Nearest large town
- Graaff-Reinet, 87 km east
- Wikipedia articles
- 22 languages
Nearby
- Umzi Wethu Conservation AcademyNature reserve53 km south
- Commando Drift Nature ReserveProtected area58 km east
- Samara Karoo ReserveNature reserve71 km west
Camdeboo National ParkNational park90 km west- Fort Fordyce Nature ReserveNature reserve95 km south-east
- Tsolwana Nature ReserveProtected area99 km east
Address and visiting
Listed addressMountain Zebra National Parksanparks.org
From business listings compiled from public map and web sources, checked October 2026.
Opening hours
| Monday | 07:00–18:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 07:00–18:00 |
| Wednesday | 07:00–18:00 |
| Thursday | 07:00–18:00 |
| Friday | 07:00–18:00 |
| Saturday | 07:00–18:00 |
| Sunday | 07:00–18:00 |
Weekly hours, as published in business listings checked October 2026. Gate times change with the season — check before you travel.
GBIF records within 10 km
Wildlife recorded around Mountain Zebra National Park
1 583 mammal and 64 192 bird occurrence records within 10 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Mountain ZebraEquus zebra254
- Black WildebeestConnochaetes gnou144
- SpringbokAntidorcas marsupialis142
- Greater KuduTragelaphus strepsiceros121
- BontebokDamaliscus pygargus120
- Red HartebeestAlcelaphus caama95
- Vervet MonkeyChlorocebus pygerythrus84
- South African Ground SquirrelXerus inauris74
- GemsbokOryx gazella59
- Common ElandTaurotragus oryx57
- Chacma BaboonPapio ursinus47
- Yellow MongooseCynictis penicillata39
- African BuffaloSyncerus caffer35
- Rock HyraxProcavia capensis30
Birds
- White-browed Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser mahali1 208
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis1 160
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris1 053
- Familiar ChatOenanthe familiaris1 049
- NeddickyCisticola fulvicapilla1 044
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola1 027
- African Red-eyed BulbulPycnonotus nigricans1 020
- Fiscal FlycatcherSigelus silens1 005
- Pied StarlingLamprotornis bicolor943
- Pied CrowCorvus albus928
- Scaly-feathered WeaverSporopipes squamifrons919
- Common OstrichStruthio camelus919
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis904
- Acacia Pied BarbetTricholaema leucomelas881
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.