TableMountainNationalPark.kml normal #Nature_norm_copy0 highlight #Nature_over_copy0 Table Mountain National Park 0 Situated at the south-western tip of Africa, Table Mountain National Park stretches scenically from Signal Hill in the north, encompassing the Table Mountain chain, to Cape Point in the south, across a crooked finger of land known as the Cape Peninsula. Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean in the west and False Bay eastwards, 2 world-renowned landmarks are within its boundaries - Table Mountain and the Cape of Good Hope. South Africa´s only urban national park, it contains 7 nature reserves and safeguards the Cape Floral Kingdom World Heritage Site, which extends from the slopes of Table Mountain, including Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, through coastal shrubland and 40 km of coastline.



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Comparatively minute in size, just 22 000 hectares, the Cape Floral Kingdom, the earth´s smallest floral kingdom, packs an astonishing botanical punch. Home to 20% of the African continent´s flora, this global diversity hot spot has the highest density, diversity and endemism of plant species on the planet; blessing South Africa with the 3rd highest level of biodiversity in the world; and it´s home to endemic marine, vertebrate, bird and reptile species, including the world´s only marine-diet adapted baboon population.

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