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Protected area · KwaZulu-Natal
UKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park
UKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park is a protected area in KwaZulu-Natal, about 86 km west of Pietermaritzburg. It covers 2 428 km² — number 2 by size of the 30 KwaZulu-Natal areas with a recorded size. Proclaimed or established in 1993.
2 428km² recorded size
1993year established
—elevation of the point
86 kmwest of Pietermaritzburg
Facts
- Type
- Protected area
- Province
- KwaZulu-Natal
- District
- Umgungundlovu
- Local municipality
- Impendle
- Size
- 2 428 km² · 242 813 ha
- Rank by size
- 7 of 115 nationally · 2 in KwaZulu-Natal
- Established
- 1993
- Designations
- Ramsar site, part of UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Part of
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park
- Mountain range
- Drakensberg
- Highest point
- Mafadi
- Coordinates
- -29.4000, 29.5200
- Nearest large town
- Pietermaritzburg, 86 km west
- Wikipedia articles
- 17 languages
Sources: Wikidata Q2744060 · WDPA 145552 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Lotheni Nature ReserveNature reserve · 40 km²6 km south
- Loteni Nature ReserveNature reserve9 km south
Kamberg Nature ReserveNature reserve15 km east- Vergelegen Nature ReserveNature reserve17 km south
- Giant's Castle Game ReserveGame reserve22 km north
- uMngeni Plateau Nature ReserveNature reserve31 km east
GBIF records within 28 km
Wildlife recorded around UKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park
286 mammal and 93 702 bird occurrence records within 28 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Chacma BaboonPapio ursinus64
- Common ElandTaurotragus oryx49
- Vaal RhebokPelea capreolus35
- Rock HyraxProcavia capensis18
- Southern ReedbuckRedunca arundinum14
- BontebokDamaliscus pygargus12
- Mountain ReedbuckRedunca fulvorufula10
- Hottentot Golden MoleAmblysomus hottentotus9
- Bush DuikerSylvicapra grimmia8
- Black WildebeestConnochaetes gnou6
- ServalLeptailurus serval5
- Southern African Mole-ratCryptomys hottentotus5
- Plains ZebraEquus quagga5
- OribiOurebia ourebi5
Birds
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis1 988
- Cape Robin-ChatCossypha caffra1 943
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus1 791
- Malachite SunbirdNectarinia famosa1 649
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris1 592
- Jackal BuzzardButeo rufofuscus1 558
- BokmakierieTelophorus zeylonus1 526
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash1 519
- Red-winged StarlingOnychognathus morio1 518
- Cape WeaverPloceus capensis1 433
- White-necked RavenCorvus albicollis1 431
- Cape CrowCorvus capensis1 358
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola1 271
- Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild1 267
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.