Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is a huge wildlife conservation area that consists of parklands in three African countries. It covers about 13,500 square miles (35,000 square kilometers). The most famous park in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) is Kruger National Park in South Africa. The GLTP also includes Limpopo National Park in Mozambique and Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe.
Great Limpopo has one of the most impressive populations of wildlife in the world. Thousands of large mammals—including antelopes, Cape buffaloes, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, hippopotamuses, hyenas, leopards, lions, rhinoceroses, wildebeests, and zebras—roam the grounds. The GLTP is also home to crocodiles, snakes, and many other kinds of reptiles; more than 500 species of birds; and at least 2,000 kinds of plants.
Savannas—grassy plains with widely scattered trees and shrubs—make up most of the GLTP. Low-lying mountains rise in the parklands along the border between South Africa and Mozambique. The northern areas of the GLTP, in Zimbabwe, have scenic cliffs and gorges. Five river systems cross the GLTP.
The governments of Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe formally established Great Limpopo in 2002. It is one of a number of cross-border wildlife areas that have been created in southern Africa since 2000.
