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Golden Gate Highlands National Park is located in Free State, South Africa, near the Lesotho border.It covers an area of 340 km 2 (130 sq mi). [1] The park's most notable features are its golden, ochre, and orange-hued, deeply eroded sandstone cliffs and outcrops, [2] especially the Brandwag rock. [3]
South African National Parks (SANParks) is the body responsible for managing South Africa's national parks. SANParks was formed in 1926, and currently manages 19 parks consisting of 3,751,113 hectares (37,511.13 km 2), [3] over 3% of the total area of South Africa. [4] [a] Many parks offer a variety of accommodations.
The Karoo National Park is a wildlife reserve in the Great Karoo area of the Western Cape, South Africa near Beaufort West. This semi-desert area covers an area of 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi). [1] The Nuweveld portion of the Great Escarpment runs through the Park.
Augrabies Falls National Park is a national park located around the Augrabies Falls, about 120 km west of Upington [1] in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The Augrabies Falls National Park covers an area of 820 km 2 [2] and stretches along the Orange River. The area is very arid.
Mokala National Park is a reserve established in the Plooysburg area south-west of Kimberley in the Northern Cape, South Africa on 19 June 2007. [1] The size of the park is 26,485 hectares. Mokala is the Setswana name for the magnificent camel thorn, a tree species typical of the arid western interior and common in the area. There is currently ...
Mountain Zebra National Park is a national park in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa; established in July 1937 for the purpose of providing a nature reserve for the endangered Cape mountain zebra. It is surrounded by 896,146 hectares (2,214,420 acres) of the Mountain Zebra-Camdeboo Protected Environment. [1] [2]
Namaqua National Park is a South African national park situated on the edge of the Atlantic coast of Namaqualand (an area covering 440,000 km 2 located within the semi-desert Succulent Karoo biome). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This biome is a biodiversity hotspot with the largest concentration of succulent plants in the world. [ 3 ]
South Africa is involved in the following transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs), also known as "peace parks". Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park – Transfrontier park in Namibia and South Africa – includes the Richtersveld in South Africa and the Fish River Canyon and Ai-Ais Hot Springs in Namibia