Waterberg

Part of the 25° South map series — original reference maps of Africa’s safari regions, free to use with attribution.

The Waterberg is not one park but a mosaic. Inside the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve boundary sit a national park, a handful of provincial reserves and dozens of private reserves and conservancies, most of them unfenced from one another and almost none of them mapped together anywhere. This map shows all 91 protected areas we could source boundaries for, drawn to the same scale.

Reserves shown on this map

91 protected areas, alphabetical. Areas are measured from the mapped boundary and rounded to the nearest square kilometre.

Using this map

This map is free to use — on a website, in a print piece, in a presentation — as long as you credit 25° South and link back to this page. That is the whole licence (CC BY 4.0). You do not need to ask us first.

Notes on accuracy

Farms, game ranches and hunting properties were excluded; so were protected areas smaller than one square kilometre, which are not legible at this scale.

A note on the Biosphere Reserve’s own size: UNESCO gives 654,033 hectares, while some South African sources give around 417,000. The boundary drawn here matches the UNESCO figure to within 1.5%. The disagreement is in the published record rather than in the mapping, and we have not tried to resolve it.

Spotted something wrong? Reserve boundaries change and open data has gaps — tell us and we will correct it.