Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa
A World Heritage Site in South Africa, inscribed in 1999 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- South Africa
- Region
- Africa
- Inscribed
- 1999
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (iii)
- Component parts
- 3
- Coordinates
- -24.1586, 29.1769
- UNESCO ID
- 915
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- French
- Sites des hominidés fossiles d’Afrique du Sud
- Spanish
- Sitios de homínidos fósiles de Sudáfrica
- Chinese
- 斯泰克方丹、 斯瓦特科兰斯、 科罗姆德拉伊和维罗恩斯的化石遗址
Other World Heritage Sites in South Africa
- Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains (2018)
- Cape Floral Region Protected Areas (2004)
- Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (2024)
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo National Park (1999)
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park (2000)
- Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (2003)
- Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape (2007)
- Robben Island (1999)
- The Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour: The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa (2024)
- Vredefort Dome (2005)
- ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape (2017)
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