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Bontebok National Park is a species-specific national park in South Africa. It was established in 1931 to ensure the preservation of the Bontebok . It is the smallest of South Africa's 19 National Parks , [ 1 ] covering an area of 27.86 km 2 [ 2 ] The park is part of the Cape Floristic Region , which is a World Heritage Site .
The bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) is an antelope found in South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia. D. pygargus has two subspecies; the nominate subspecies (D. p. pygargus), [3] occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the blesbok (D. p. phillipsi) occurring in the Highveld. The bontebok is related to the ...
The blesbok or blesbuck (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi) is a subspecies of the bontebok antelope endemic to South Africa, Eswatini and Namibia.It has a distinctive white face and forehead, which inspired the name because bles is the Afrikaans (and Dutch language) word for a blaze such as one might see on the forehead of a horse.
Cape Town [a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [13] Cape Town is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [14] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
Originally established during Cape Town's colonial era, Trafalgar Park has evolved into a popular community hub featuring playgrounds, sports fields, and picnic areas. 9/2/018/0290/001 Central Redoubt, Trafalgar Park, Woodstock, Cape Town This fortress was hastily built in 1781, when an attack by British forces on the Cape was expected.
This is a list of suburbs in the City of Cape Town, South Africa, which includes the city of Cape Town, as well as its surrounding suburbs and exurbs. [1] Each section on this page separates a specific region of Cape Town, in alphabetical order. Within each region, there is a table, with its respective suburbs listed in alphabetical order.
Both the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point offer spectacular scenery; the whole of the southernmost portion of the Cape Peninsula is a wild, rugged, scenic and generally unspoiled national park. The term "the Cape" has also been used in a wider sense, to indicate the area of the European colony centered on Cape Town, [37] and the later South ...
Gweru, originally known as Gwelo, is a city in central Zimbabwe. It is on the centre of Midlands Province . Originally an area known to the Ndebele as "The Steep Place" because of the Gweru River 's high banks , in 1894 it became the site of a military outpost established by Leander Starr Jameson . [ 2 ]