Location and Geomorphology

The parent material underlying this landscape is mainly amphibolite from the Swaziland System and to a lesser degree granite and gneiss mixed with weathered material from gabbro and dolerite (Shutte 1974).
It is a relatively flat landscape in comparison with the adjacent undulating terrain on granite.
This area is situated north of the old Letaba / Phalaborwa tourist road and south of the Letaba River, excluding the direct southerly drainage to the Letaba River.
It is drained by the Ngwenyeni, Malopene and Nwanedzi spruits, and is situated between 300 and 380 metres above sea level. This landscape occupies 546 km/2 or 2.8 percent of the KNP.
Climate
There is no reason to believe that the climate of this landscape differs much from Landscapes 8 and 10. Surrounding weather stations and their annual average rainfall are Mahlangene 490 mm, Phalaborwa 481 mm, Letaba Ranch 487 mm and Letaba 471 mm (Gertenbach 1980).
As a result of the flat terrain the possibility of frost in winter is poor (See Table 5 for temperature data).
Acacia nigrescens: found in Flatlands
Albizia harveyi: found in Flatlands
Cissus cornifolia: found in Flatlands
Colophospermum mopane: found in Flatlands
Combretum apiculatum: found in Flatlands
Combretum imberbe: found in Flatlands
Commiphora africana.: found in Flatlands
Grewia bicolor: found in Flatlands
Lannea stuhlmannii: found in Flatlands
Maerua parvifolia: found in Flatlands
Ncorautanenia amboensis: found in Flatlands
Ozoroa engleri: found in Flatlands
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