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Nature reserve · Western Cape
Silvermine Nature Reserve
Silvermine Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Western Cape, about 20 km south of Cape Town.
—km² recorded size
—year established
347 melevation of the point
20 kmsouth of Cape Town
Facts
- Type
- Nature reserve
- Province
- Western Cape
- Local municipality
- City of Cape Town
- Elevation
- 347 m
- Part of
- Table Mountain National Park
- Coordinates
- -34.1075, 18.4355
- Nearest large town
- Cape Town, 20 km south
- Wikipedia articles
- 4 languages
Sources: Wikidata Q1252711 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Muizenberg CaveNature reserve1 km east
- St. James SpringNature reserve3 km east
- Grysbok ParkNature reserve4 km east
- Tokai ParkNational park6 km north
Table Mountain National ParkNational park · 225 km²7 km south-west
Rondevlei Nature ReserveProtected area · 3 km²8 km north-east
Address and visiting
Listed addressTable Mountain National Park, Table Mountain (Nature Reserve), Cape Townsanparks.org
From business listings compiled from public map and web sources, checked October 2026.
GBIF records within 3 km
Wildlife recorded around Silvermine Nature Reserve
551 mammal and 43 208 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 pusillus278
- Cape PorcupineHystrix africaeaustralis70
- Eastern Gray SquirrelSciurus carolinensis29
- Rock HyraxProcavia capensis26
- Cape GenetGenetta tigrina18
- Cape Gray MongooseGalerella pulverulenta17
- African Clawless OtterAonyx capensis13
- CaracalCaracal caracal11
- Xeric Four-striped Grass RatRhabdomys pumilio11
- Indo-Pacific Bottlenose DolphinTursiops aduncus11
- Cape Golden MoleChrysochloris asiatica9
- Cape Dune Mole-ratBathyergus suillus9
- Southern Right WhaleEubalaena australis6
- Natal Long-fingered BatMiniopterus natalensis6
Birds
- Red-winged StarlingOnychognathus morio1 181
- Kelp GullLarus dominicanus1 111
- Little StintCalidris minuta1 107
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea993
- Cape WeaverPloceus capensis932
- Cape White-eyeZosterops virens910
- Southern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris chalybeus873
- Cape BulbulPycnonotus capensis857
- Cape Robin-ChatCossypha caffra842
- Karoo PriniaPrinia maculosa825
- Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris808
- Pied CrowCorvus albus791
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca762
- Hartlaub's GullChroicocephalus hartlaubii750
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.