Location and Geomorphology

This landscape is located in the triangle formed by the Olifants River, Timbavati River and the western boundary of the KNP.
The substratum is mainly granite and gneiss intersected by numerous intrusions of dolerite. This landscape is also intersected by a large gabbro-body which is classified as a separate landscape (Landscape 19). Amphibolite from the Swaziland System occur extensively throughout this landscape (Schutte 1982) and have an important influence on the soil and vegetation.
The terrain is undulating and is drained by the tributaries of the Timbavati River of which the Shisakashanghondo, Chalons, Brak, Mbhanswe and Mshatu spruits are the most important.
The altitude of this landscape varies between 300 and 500 metres and it occupies 469.3 km/2 or 2.4 percent of the KNP.

Acacia gerrardii: found in Middle and Footslopes
Acacia nigrescens: found in Middle and Footslopes
Bolusanthus speciosus: found in Middle and Footslopes
Colophospermum mopane: found in Middle and Footslopes
Combretum apiculatum: found in Middle and Footslopes
Combretum hereroense: found in Middle and Footslopes
Combretum imberbe: found in Middle and Footslopes
Euclea divinorum: found in Middle and Footslopes
Grewia bicolor: found in Middle and Footslopes
Maerua parvifolia: found in Middle and Footslopes
Ormocarpum trichocarpum: found in Middle and Footslopes
Terminalia prunioides: found in Middle and Footslopes
Ximenia caffra.: found in Middle and Footslopes
Acacia robusta: found in Riverine/Spruit
Albizia harveyi: found in Riverine/Spruit
Colophospermum mopane: found in Riverine/Spruit
Combretum hereroense: found in Riverine/Spruit
Combretum imberbe: found in Riverine/Spruit
Dalbergia melanoxylon: found in Riverine/Spruit
Diospyros mespiliformis: found in Riverine/Spruit
Euclea diviorum: found in Riverine/Spruit
Euclea natalensis: found in Riverine/Spruit
Lannea stuhlmannii: found in Riverine/Spruit
Lonchocarpus capassa: found in Riverine/Spruit
Schotia brachypetala: found in Riverine/Spruit
Ziziphus mucronata: found in Riverine/Spruit
Acacia burkei: found in Uplands
Acacia exuvialis: found in Uplands
Albizia harveyi: found in Uplands
Cissus cornifolia: found in Uplands
Colophospermum mopane: found in Uplands
Combretum apiculatum: found in Uplands
Commiphora africana: found in Uplands
Dalbergia melanoxylon: found in Uplands
Dichrostachys cinerea subsp. Africana: found in Uplands
Lannea stuhlmannii: found in Uplands
Sclerocarya caffra: found in Uplands
Terminalia sericea: found in Uplands
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