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Oliphants Drift

Kgatlengvillage

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Coordinates-24.18°, 26.85°

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Overview

Oliphants Drift is a village in Kgatleng District of Botswana. It is located 85 km (53 mi) north-east of Mochudi, close to the border with South Africa. The village has a primary school and a health clinic, and the population was 758 in 2001 census.

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History & geography

Geography

Latitude
-24.1803
Longitude
26.8503
Water area
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Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

Air quality

Walkability

Amenities nearby

Wildlife & biodiversity

Observations (last 5 yrs, 10 mi)
379
Distinct species (top 10)
10

Most-observed species

  • Red-billed Quelea
    Quelea quelea (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
    6
  • Crowned Lapwing
    Vanellus coronatus (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
    6
  • Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
    Tockus leucomelas (M.H.K.Lichtenstein, 1842) · Aves
    5
  • Southern Cordonbleu
    Uraeginthus angolensis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
    5
  • Fork-tailed Drongo
    Dicrurus adsimilis (Bechstein, 1794) · Aves
    5
  • Namaqua Dove
    Oena capensis (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
    5
  • Ring-necked Dove
    Streptopelia capicola (Sundevall, 1857) · Aves
    5
  • leopard
    Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
    5

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Quakes ≥ 2.5 (25 yrs, 62 mi)
3
Largest magnitude
4.2
Largest event
2013-06-22

Most recent

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

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Sights & places nearby

Notable people from here

Nearby places in Kgatleng

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Geography & sun

Avg solar (kWh/m²/day)
5.79
Annual solar (kWh/m²)
2,112

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Nearby airports

Public attention

Wikipedia views (last 30 days)
21
Avg daily Wikipedia views
1
Attention level
Obscure

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about this place

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Ground air-quality sensors

Recently spotted species

Events

Gallery

Sources

  • • Wikipedia
  • • USGS Earthquake Catalog (global feed)
  • • GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
  • • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
  • • Wikipedia Pageviews API
  • • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image