Infographic of Kruger National Park Facts

Description of What is Depicted

It is often difficult to obtain some key facts about Kruger National Park without sifting through large amounts of information. In this and other infographics about the park, we summarize the facts so you can quickly and easily view relevant information in a few minutes.

This infographic displays relevant general information about the park's size and temperatures to be expected at different times of the year. It also lists the number of camps of different types scattered throughout the park and the key towns, airports, and hospitals near South Africa's largest and most famous national park.

Read from the top, the infographic sums up the park in a few lines. Kruger covers nearly 2 million hectares and supports a remarkable range of life: 336 tree, 49 fish, 34 amphibian, 114 reptile and 507 bird species, along with 147 mammal species. It also notes that the park offers both luxury and standard accommodation and protects archaeological sites, a reminder that people have lived in this part of the Lowveld for many centuries.

A seasonal wheel in the middle of the graphic gives typical temperature ranges for summer, autumn, winter and spring, each with a short note on what that time of year offers visitors. Below it, the accommodation count lists 12 rest camps, 5 bushveld camps and 4 satellite camps run by SANParks, together with its bush lodges. Our overview of Kruger's main rest camps describes each of them. A map arrow also points to the private concessions inside the park, where a few exclusive private lodges operate, as covered in our guide to private safari lodges inside Kruger.

The lower panel lists practical gateways. For flights, it names Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport and Hoedspruit, and it shows Mbombela (Nelspruit), Hoedspruit and Phalaborwa as the main towns near the park.