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Nature reserve · Western Cape
Muizenberg Cave
Muizenberg Cave is listed as nature preserve near Cape Town, in City of Cape Town municipality, Western Cape — about 20 km south of Cape Town. The nearest other area in the directory is Silvermine Nature Reserve, 1 km west.
20 kmsouth of Cape Town
1 kmto the nearest listed area
97species with records nearby
—opening hours listed
AddressSilver Mine (Nature Reserve), Cape Town
Facts
- Type
- Nature reserve
- Listed as
- Nature preserve
- Province
- Western Cape
- District
- City of Cape Town
- Local municipality
- City of Cape Town
- Town
- Cape Town
- Coordinates
- -34.1073, 18.4506
- Nearest large town
- Cape Town, 20 km south
- Website
- not listed
Sources: business listings compiled from public map and web sources, checked October 2026 · municipality: geoBoundaries (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · province: Natural Earth
Nearby
- Silvermine Nature ReserveNature reserve1 km west
- St. James SpringNature reserve1 km south-east
- Grysbok ParkNature reserve3 km east
- Tokai ParkNational park6 km north
- Rondevlei Nature ReserveProtected area · 3 km²7 km north-east
- False Bay Nature ReserveNature reserve7 km north-east
GBIF records within 3 km
Wildlife recorded around Muizenberg Cave
850 mammal and 62 841 bird occurrence records within 3 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Brown Fur SealArctocephalus pusillus605
- Eastern Gray SquirrelSciurus carolinensis38
- Cape Dune Mole-ratBathyergus suillus25
- Rock HyraxProcavia capensis23
- African Clawless OtterAonyx capensis21
- Cape PorcupineHystrix africaeaustralis21
- Cape Gray MongooseGalerella pulverulenta13
- Cape GrysbokRaphicerus melanotis11
- Cape Golden MoleChrysochloris asiatica10
- Humpback WhaleMegaptera novaeangliae9
- Xeric Four-striped Grass RatRhabdomys pumilio8
- Southern Right WhaleEubalaena australis7
- Indo-Pacific Bottlenose DolphinTursiops aduncus6
- Natal Long-fingered BatMiniopterus natalensis6
Birds
- Kelp GullLarus dominicanus1 773
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca1 510
- Red-winged StarlingOnychognathus morio1 450
- Hartlaub's GullChroicocephalus hartlaubii1 347
- Cape White-eyeZosterops virens1 292
- Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris1 283
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea1 281
- Southern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris chalybeus1 246
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash1 224
- Cape BulbulPycnonotus capensis1 186
- Long-tailed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus1 158
- Cape WeaverPloceus capensis1 148
- Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata1 148
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis1 138
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.