Kromdraai Conservancy | |
Map: | South Africa Gauteng |
Relief: | 1 |
Location: | Gauteng, South Africa |
Nearest City: | Krugersdorp, South Africa |
Coordinates: | -25.9292°N 27.7889°W |
Area: | less than 200 m |
Established: | Incorporated in part into the Cradle of Humankind, 1998 |
Governing Body: | Cradle of Humankind, Private Landowners and Conservancy |
Kromdraai Conservancy is a protected conservation park located to the south-west of Gauteng province in north-east South Africa. It is in the Muldersdrift area not far from Krugersdorp.
Its name is derived from Afrikaans meaning "Crooked Turn" after a kink in the meandering Crocodile River.
It was established to protect the caves, old gold mines, fossil sites, trout farm and a game reserve in the area. The caves in the area, known as the Sterkfontein caves have an extensive number of fossils and dolomite caverns. A well known fossil site is also named Kromdraai and it, along with such sites as Sterkfontein,[1] Coopers, Swartkrans and Plovers Lake form part of the conservancy. Part of the Kromdraai conservancy also falls within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, proclaimed by UNESCO in 1998.