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The Maloti-Drakensberg Park is a World Heritage Site, established on 11 June 2001 by linking the Sehlabathebe National Park in the Kingdom of Lesotho and the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [1] The highest peak is Thaba Ntlenyana rising to 3,482 metres.
The Sehlabathebe National Park is located in the Maloti Mountains in Qacha's Nek District, Lesotho and is part of the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site.The park was first established on 8 May 1969 and since then, is recognised as important in terms of biological diversity and cultural heritage. [2]
The Maloti-Drakensberg Park is a transnational property composed of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg National Park in South Africa and the Sehlathebe National Park in Lesotho. The site has exceptional natural beauty in its soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic cutbacks, and golden sandstone ramparts as well as visually spectacular sculptured ...
The uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park is also in the List of Wetlands of International Importance (under the Ramsar Convention). Adjacent to the park is the Cathkin Estates Conservation and Wildlife Sanctuary, which spans 1,044 ha (10 km 2 ) of virgin grassland and represents the largest privately-owned game park in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg region.
The first three sites in South Africa were added to the list in 1999 while the most recent ones, the Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites and the Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa, were added in 2024. Seven sites are listed for their cultural significance, four for natural, and one site, the Maloti-Drakensberg Park, is listed
The dawn chorus in Royal Natal National Park, recorded by David Watts on 27 November 1984 Royal Natal National Park is a 80.94-square-kilometre (31.25 sq mi) [ 2 ] park in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa and forms part of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park , a UNESCO World Heritage Site . [ 2 ]
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The Drakensberg (Zulu: uKhahlamba, Sotho: Maloti, Afrikaans: Drakensberge) is the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau. The Great Escarpment reaches its greatest elevation – 2,000 to 3,482 metres (6,562 to 11,424 feet) within the border region of South Africa and Lesotho .