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Game reserve · Mpumalanga
Timbavati Game Reserve
Timbavati Game Reserve is a game reserve in Mpumalanga, about 37 km east of Hoedspruit. Proclaimed or established in 1956.
—km² recorded size
1956year established
452 melevation of the point
37 kmeast of Hoedspruit
Facts
- Type
- Game reserve
- Province
- Mpumalanga
- District
- Ehlanzeni
- Local municipality
- Bushbuckridge
- Established
- 1956
- Elevation
- 452 m
- Coordinates
- -24.4056, 31.3139
- Nearest large town
- Hoedspruit, 37 km east
- Wikipedia articles
- 7 languages
Nearby
- Cronje en Dogters Privaat NatuurreserweNature reserve15 km west
- Klaserie Game ReserveGame reserve20 km north-west
- Andover Nature ReserveNature reserve22 km south-west
- Thornybush Game ReserveGame reserve · 115 km²22 km south-west
Kapama Game ReserveProtected area26 km west- Umbabat Game ReserveNature reserve29 km north
Address and visiting
Listed addressHoedspruit, 1380timbavati.co.za
From business listings compiled from public map and web sources, checked October 2026.
GBIF records within 3 km
Wildlife recorded around Timbavati Game Reserve
203 mammal and 12 560 bird occurrence records within 3 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Spotted HyenaCrocuta crocuta19
- Southern GiraffeGiraffa giraffa16
- Plains ZebraEquus quagga14
- African BuffaloSyncerus caffer14
- Common HippopotamusHippopotamus amphibius14
- Greater KuduTragelaphus strepsiceros14
- Common Dwarf MongooseHelogale parvula13
- ImpalaAepyceros melampus13
- Blue WildebeestConnochaetes taurinus11
- African Wild DogLycaon pictus9
- WaterbuckKobus ellipsiprymnus9
- Common Wart-hogPhacochoerus africanus8
- SteenbokRaphicerus campestris7
- LionPanthera leo6
Birds
- Burchell's StarlingLamprotornis australis250
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis234
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola232
- Lilac-breasted RollerCoracias caudatus228
- Southern Yellow-billed HornbillTockus leucomelas226
- Gray Go-away-birdCorythaixoides concolor193
- Magpie ShrikeUrolestes melanoleucus186
- Southern Red-billed HornbillTockus rufirostris185
- Crested FrancolinOrtygornis sephaena184
- Red-billed OxpeckerBuphagus erythrorhynchus176
- Arrow-marked BabblerTurdoides jardineii176
- Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus176
- White-backed VultureGyps africanus176
- Emerald-spotted Wood DoveTurtur chalcospilos169
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.