Golden Gate Highlands National Park

Name: Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Address: South Africa

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Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa — Photo: Pavel Špindler, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 329 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Golden Gate Highlands National Park

Species: 371
Grid cells: 665
Records: 68,555

Insects 168
Birds 158
Reptiles 18
Mammals 11
Amphibians 10
Bony fish 6

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Golden Gate Highlands 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 Golden Gate Highlands 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.