World Heritage in South Africa

cradle of humanity Mapungubwe Richtersveld cultural landscape Robben Island Cape Floral ISimangaliso Wetland Park Vredefort crater Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg Park Cultural landscape of the Khomani Barberton Greenstone Belt

World Heritage Sites in South Africa

The world heritage in South Africa (as of 2018) includes ten UNESCO world heritage sites , including five world cultural heritage sites, four world natural heritage sites and a mixed cultural and natural heritage site. South Africa ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1997, and the first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 1999. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2018.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in South Africa in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

 Map with all coordinates of World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
(more pictures)	ISimangaliso Wetland Park ( location )	1999	N	914	The wetlands are located on the east coast of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal . The largest crocodile and hippo populations in South Africa live here.
(more pictures)	Robben Island ( location )	1999	K	916	former prison island
(more pictures)	Sites of fossil hominids in South Africa ( location )	1999	K	915	The Cradle of Humankind (German: cradle of mankind) is located about 50 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg . The oldest finds are around 1.75 to 1.8 million years old. Mrs. Ples was found in Sterkfontein . The world heritage site originally comprised Sterkfontein , Swartkrans and Kromdraai and the surrounding area, in 2005 it was expanded to include Makapansgat and Taung .
(more pictures)	Maloti Drakensberg Park ( location )	2000	K / N	985	The world heritage includes the Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg Park and, since 2013, the Sehlabathebe National Park in Lesotho . The Drakensberg in the nature park have a height of up to 3482 meters. They mostly consist of basalt rock.
(more pictures)	Mapungubwe cultural landscape ( location )	2003	K	1099	Mapungubwe is an excavation area near the city of Musina in northern South Africa.
(more pictures)	Cape Floral Region Protected Areas ( Location )	2004	N	1007	The protected region consists of eight nature reserves in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces in South Africa. The original world heritage site was expanded in 2015
(more pictures)	Vredefort crater ( location )	2005	N	1162	The meteorite crater is the largest safely identified impact crater on earth . It is located 120 kilometers southwest of Johannesburg. The impact occurred about two billion years ago.
(more pictures)	Richtersveld cultural and plant landscape ( location )	2007	K	1265	The landscape is located in the far northwest of South Africa and is the last area in which the indigenous people of the Nama tribe live as shepherds.
(more pictures)	Cultural landscape of the Khomani ( location )	2017	K	1545	The cultural landscape of the Khomani , a group of the San people , is located on the border with Botswana and Namibia and roughly corresponds to the area of ​​the Kalahari-Gemsbok National Park .
	Barberton Mountain Land / Barberton Greenstone Belt / Makhonjwa Mountains ( location )	2018	N	1575	Mountain range in the South African province of Mpumalanga and Swaziland, where the world's oldest traces of life have been discovered.

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list .

Current World Heritage candidates

As of 2018, five sites are entered in the tentative list of South Africa, the last entry was made in 2015. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.

 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
(more pictures)	Succulent Karoo Protected Areas ( location )	2009	N	5458
	Liberation Heritage Route	2009	K	5459	with the stations Robben Island , University of Fort Hare , Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication at Kliptown in Soweto , Nelson Mandela sites (residential buildings), home of Robert Sobukwe , home of Steve Biko and Zanempilo Clinic , Constitution Hill , Chief Albert Luthuli - Museum, Hector Pieterson Memorial , Sharpeville , House of Sol Plaatje , Liliesleaf Farm , Avalon Cemetery
(more pictures)	Early homesteads in Cape Wine Country	2015	K	6049	Evidence of the early agricultural economy by European immigrants in South Africa with special consideration of the viticulture at the Cape .
	The Origin of Modern Man: The Pleistocene Dwellings in South Africa	2015	K	6050	with the archaeological sites of Blombos , Border Cave , Diepkloof , Klasies River Caves , Pinnacle Point and Sibudu Cave
	Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela's Legacy Sites	2015	K	6051	Nelson Mandela's legacy sites include: University of Fort Hare , Union Buildings , Sophiatown and Forced Eviction Memorials from District Six , Kliptown ( Walter Sisulu Square ) and the Charter of Freedom , the home and museum of Chief Albert Luthuli , site of Nelson Mandela's arrest in Howick , Manaye Hall and Reconciliation Sites in Pietermaritzburg , Nelson Mandela Center of Memory , Palace of Justice in Pretoria (site of the Rivonia Trial ), memorials for the 1960 massacre in Sharpeville and Langa , Liliesleaf Farm Liberation Memorial , Vilakazi Street and Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto , Constitution Hill and Truth and Reconciliation Commission , Freedom Park National Memorial and Waihoek Site , Nelson Mandela Sites ( Qunu , Mvezo , Mqhekezweni ) and Steve Biko Affiliate Sites and Zanempilo Clinic

Former World Heritage candidates

These sites were previously on the tentative list, but were withdrawn or rejected by UNESCO. Sites that are included in other entries on the tentative list or that are part of world heritage sites are not taken into account here.

 Map with all coordinates of former World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Sacred sites of Modderpoort	1998-2011	K	1073
(more pictures)	Pleistocene settlements of the Klasies River, Border Cave, Wonderwerk Cave and similar places that relate to the origin of modern man ( location )	1998-2015	K	1074
(more pictures)	Tswaing meteorite crater ( location )	2004-2011	N	1911	Created about 220,000 years ago by the impact of a meteoroid with a diameter of 30 to 50 m
	Pilgrim's Rest Reduction Works industrial heritage site	2004-2015	K	1075	Gold mining site in Transvaal
	Kimberley Mines and related early industries	2004-2015	K	1909	Kimberley mining industry with The Big Hole diamond mine
	Alexandria Coastal Dunefield	2009-2015	N	5453	largest dune field in South Africa
(more pictures)	Prince Edward Islands ( location )	2009-2015	N	5457	uninhabited archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean
(more pictures)	Namaqualand copper mining landscape	2009-2015	K	5460	six copper mining sites in Namaqualand
	Cape meridian arch	2009-2015	K	5461	eleven sites on a meridian arc at the Cape

Web links

Commons : World Heritage Sites in South Africa  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• South Africa on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ South Africa. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed August 28, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of South Africa. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed August 28, 2017 . 
3. ^ Former Tentative Sites of South Africa. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved August 28, 2017 . 

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