- World Heriage Sites on the MAP
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Location: (KwaZulu-Natal)
Description:The iSimangaliso Wetland Park (formerley the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park) has both one of the largest estuary systems in Africa and the continent's southernmost coral reefs. The park has been noted for its exceptional biodiversity, including some 521 bird species.
- Robben lsland
Location: (Western Cape)
Description:Robben Island is most famous as the place where Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa, was imprisoned for 18 of his 27 years in jail. The island has since become a symbol of the triumph of democracy and freedom over oppression.
- Cradle of Humankind
Location: (Gauteng)
Description:The Cradle of Humankind covering the region of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and environs has one of the world's richest concentrations of hominid fossils, evidence of human evolution over the last 3.5-million years.
- uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park
Location: (KwaZulu-Natal)
Description:The Park has outstanding natural beauty, Africa's highest mountain range south of Kilimanjaro, and the largest and most concentrated series of rock art paintings in Africa - making it a World Heritage Site of both natural and cultural significance.
- Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
Location: (Limpopo)
Description:Mapungubwe - "place of the stone ofwisdom" - was South Africa's first kingdom, and developed into the subcontinent's largest realm, lasting for 400 years before it was abandoned in the 14th century. Its highly sophisticated people traded gold and ivory with China, India and EgFpt.
- Cape Floral Region
Location: (Western Cape)
Description:The Cape Floral Region takes up only 0.04o/o of the world's land area, yet contains an astonishing3o/o percent of its plant species. This makes it one of the richest areas for plants in the world and one of the globe's 18 biodiversity hot spots.
- Vredefort Dome
Location: (Free State)
Description: Some 2-billion years ago a meteorite 10 kilometres in diameter hit the Earth about 100km southwest of fohannesburg, creating an enormous impact crater. This area, near the town of Vredefort in the Free State, is known as the Vredefort Dome.
- Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape
Location: (Northern Cape)
Description: The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape covers 160 000 hectares of dramatic mountainous desert in the north-west part of South Africa. A unique feature of the site is that it is owned and managed by a community that until recently had very little to call its own.
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