Garden Route National Park

Name: Garden Route National Park
Address: South Africa

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Garden Route National Park, South Africa — Photo: Vaiz Ha, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 1,657 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Garden Route National Park

Species: 922
Grid cells: 2,956
Records: 671,365

Insects 512
Birds 240
Bony fish 73
Reptiles 37
Mammals 32
Amphibians 15
Sharks and rays 12
Chimaeras 1

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Garden Route National Park. Cells are up to 25 km across, so an animal counted here may have been recorded just outside the boundary. This is not a park checklist, and the counts follow where people look as much as what lives there.

Likely encounters

Encounter chances are worked out for the species with a full field-guide entry, and none of them has records here yet. The most recorded species below come from the same records.

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Garden Route National Park, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.