UKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park

Local nameuKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park
LocationSouth Africa

The uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park is a protected area in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, covering 2,428.13 km2, and is part of the Maloti-Drakensberg Park, a World Heritage Site. The park includes Royal Natal National Park, a provincial park, and covers part of the Drakensberg, an escarpment formation with the highest elevations in southern Africa.

The park and the adjoining Sehlabathebe National Park in the Kingdom of Lesotho are part of the Maloti-Drakensberg Park, which was first declared a World Heritage Site on 30 November 2000. It is described by UNESCO as having "exceptional natural beauty in its soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic cutbacks, and golden sandstone ramparts... the site’s diversity of habitats protects a high level of endemic and globally threatened species, especially birds and plants... also contains many caves and rock-shelters with the largest and most concentrated group of paintings in Africa south of the Sahara".

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKhahlamba-Drakensberg_Park

UNESCO website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/985

Coordinates -29°22'27.516" N 29°23'37.674" E

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