World Heritage sites in South Africa
It is considered that the 22 000 hectares of the Table Mountain National Park has more plant species than the British Isles or New Zealand. And that the Drakensberg has both the highest mountain range in Africa south of Kilimanjaro and the continent’s richest concentration of rock art.
South Africa is home to eight official world heritage sites, this was determined by Unesco’s World Heritage Committee.
The committee has encouraged the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage throughout the world which is seen as of “outstanding value to humanity”.
There are 851 World Heritage sites Internationally within 141 countries (circa April 2008). South Africa has a total of eight – four cultural, three natural and one mixed (cultural and natural) site. Here is the list of these sites, presented from the first added to the very latest, they are:
* iSimangaliso Wetland Park * Robben Island * Cradle of Humankind * uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park * Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape * Cape Floral Region * Vredefort Dome * Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape
